Breaking News Network is a subscriber service based in Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fort Lee, New Jersey

Fort Lee is a borough in Bergen County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 35,345. Located atop the Hudson Palisades, the borough is the western terminus of the George Washington Bridge...

. Created by a group of former firefighter

Firefighter

Firefighters are rescuers extensively trained primarily to put out hazardous fires that threaten civilian populations and property, to rescue people from car incidents, collapsed and burning buildings and other such situations...

s, the service listens to police and firefighter scanners and records them in real time. Local journalist

Journalist

A journalist collects and distributes news and other information. A journalist's work is referred to as journalism.A reporter is a type of journalist who researchs, writes, and reports on information to be presented in mass media, including print media , electronic media , and digital media A...

s, rescue workers, and state agencies then pick up one-sentence lines about automobile crashes, fire

Fire

Fire is the rapid oxidation of a material in the chemical process of combustion, releasing heat, light, and various reaction products. Slower oxidative processes like rusting or digestion are not included by this definition....

s, and crime

Crime

Crime is the breach of rules or laws for which some governing authority can ultimately prescribe a conviction...

s as they occur. This gives them the opportunity to respond to them. The service is open to anyone who subscribes to it. Dispatchers are employed 24/7 to monitor the radio traffic and pick out newsworthy information.

Further reading

New York Times story about BNN:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/17/nyregion/17breaking.html?scp=1&sq=%22breaking%20news%20network%22&st=cse
Baristanet.com:

http://www.baristanet.com/2011/03/montclairs-edgemont-school-students-involved-bus-crash/

http://www.baristanet.com/2011/06/bloomfield-blaze-under-control/

Northjersey.com:

http://blogs.northjersey.com/blogs/bergenbeat/paramus_police_shooting_prompts_potential_revision_to_official_notification/

http://www.northjersey.com/news/118142424_trapped_in_rollover.html

http://www.northjersey.com/news/crime_courts/118142129_West_Milford.html

New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/05/nyregion/05hoard.html

http://fort-greene.thelocal.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/officer-kills-vicious-loose-dog/

http://maplewood.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/robberies-plaguing-maplewood/

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/02/12/in-path-of-suspected-brooklyn-killer-a-trail-of-notices/

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/13/nyregion/13scanner.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=scanner&st=cse

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/04/police-parlance-packaged-10-4/#more-135619

Patch.com:

http://fairfaxstation.patch.com/articles/early-morning-fire-displaces-fairfax-family

http://uppersouthampton.patch.com/articles/wachovia-bank-on-county-line-road-robbed-2

http://uppermacungie.patch.com/articles/state-police-at-fogelsville-confirm-lowhill-township-accident

http://pointpleasant.patch.com/articles/pedestrian-killed-in-long-branch-train-accident

http://middletown-nj.patch.com/articles/car-chase-of-alleged-stolen-vehicles-ensues

http://marlboro.patch.com/articles/fire-in-morganville-home-has-all-units-respond

Philly.com:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/129789903.html

http://articles.philly.com/2011-08-28/news/29938555_1_building-collapse-partial-building-fire-department-dispatcher

Reuters.com:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/12/people-corzine-idUSN1237875120070412

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/04/13/us-empirestate-fall-idUSN1323311420070413

http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/11/09/idUSN09360543

Timesledger.com:

http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2011/45/laguardialaserpointers_we_2011_11_10_q.html

http://www.timesledger.com/stories/2011/44/kewgardenshillscarvsbuilding_ft_2011_11_03_q.html

The Morning Call:

http://articles.mcall.com/2011-06-05/news/mc-nazareth-gas-leak-20110604_1_ugi-spokesman-daniel-adamo-gas-leak-odor

Thestar.com:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/5/30/worldupdates/2008-05-30T181957Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-338319-1&sec=Worldupdates

Trentonian:

http://www.trentonian.com/articles/2009/05/12/news/doc4a08f4b346719211710390.txt

Washington Post:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/12/AR2007041202002.html

Yournabe.com:

http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/08/23/queens/doc4e5400b660dc2887831585.txt

http://www.yournabe.com/articles/2011/09/08/queens/qns_violentweekend_all_2011_09_08_q_20110908.txt