The number of international media personnel registering for assistance from the GIO rose dramatically as new media poured in every day. Many large news organizations which had originally planned only to dispatch people from their Beijing or Hong Kong bureaus ended up sending staff from the home office to provide support.
向新聞局登記要求協助的國際媒體也迅速增加，每天都有新的媒體前來；原來準備就近自北京、香港派員前來的一些大媒體也自總部派人來增援。