Bean on mobile alerts in the U.S. and Canada

Published: Feb. 25, 2019

On February 15, Hamilton Bean, Associate Professor of Communication, participated in a live radio interview with KCBS All News 740 and FM 106.9 in San Francisco, CA. Hosts Stan Bunger and Susan Leigh Taylor spoke with Bean about the use of mobile alert and warning messages in emergencies. Later that day, Bean was interviewed for a story in Maclean’s, a Canadian national news magazine, about an AMBER alert issued by the Peel Regional Police. He then participated in another live radio interview about mobile alerts with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s Afternoon Drive with host Chris dela Torre, which is broadcast across southwestern Ontario.