Chaotic and thrilling: Columbia’s radio station is live from the student protests

As pro-Palestinian demonstrations roil campus, the station's undergraduate reporters - working 18 hour days - have become an essential news source

The turning point was certainly immediate, very sudden ... We received a tip at 4am that there would be a demonstration on Columbia's campus, and pretty soon after that, we went live on air."

The presenter, Georgia Dillane, is describing the moment on 17 April that student radio station WKCR was thrust into the spotlight with its quick news updates from inside the university grounds.