NEW YORK -- Before U.S. cable networks broke away from taped programming on Sunday, news junkies glued to Twitter for Libya updates discovered that one TV network had a correspondent reporting on air with the rebels as they headed into Tripoli: Britain's Sky News.
"Can you hear the sound? That’s the sound of people celebrating," said Sky News correspondent Alex Crawford, donning a helmet and flack jacket as she reported from a moving pick-up truck.
Crawford, who had been covering the rebels in Zawiya, was the first TV correspondent to arrive in Green Square, which was quickly referred to once again as Martyr's Square, its name before the start of Gaddafi's brutal 42-year rule. Al Jazeera English's Zeina Khodr and CNN's Sara Sidner also headed into Tripoli and later reported live from the city's center, as network correspondents staying in Tripoli's Rixos hotel remained stuck inside for fear of snipers and Gaddafi loyalists still holding onto that area of the capital. Some correspondents, like CNN's Matthew Chance, appeared on air later from inside the hotel via Skype.
But it was Crawford who was able to first cover the jubilation on the ground, which U.S. viewers couldwatch via livestream of the UK broadcast. "This is going to be the biggest party Tripoli has ever seen," she told anchors back in London.
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