media happening

“If you want live media happening right now from a place, it’s really hard to get to,” Mr. Systrom, chief executive and co-founder of Instagram, said in an interview Friday on the Silicon Valley campus of Facebook, which bought Instagram in 2012.

It fell to me to field their calls: “Columbine,” this thing that wounded 24 and killed 13 and almost took my mother, was an all-day, wall-to-wall media happening.

By Thursday, the bird’s destiny was the subject of a bona fide news media happening.

My appearance on the screen that night became a celebrated media happening.

Or at least it did until Fischer, the celebrated recluse, became a media happening.