On September 11, 2001, Gráinne Seoige was at the TV3 studios in Dublin, writing a mini-bulletin that she planned to deliver to camera in the newsroom, when the first aircraft hit the World Trade Center. Seoige was still trying to make sense of what was happening when Rick Hetherington, the Canadian chief executive of TV3, stormed into her office. “What the hell are you still doing here?” he yelled. “Get into the studio now.”
Seoige entered the newsroom with 20 seconds of written dialogue on a page and freewheeled in front of the camera for more than seven hours. “I was in there by myself the entire time,” she recalls. “It was a horrific, tragic and world-changing day, but from a news perspective, it was