Opinion by Greg Sargent: A new type of reporter emerges: The “mass shooting correspondent”
Another reporter who has covered numerous mass shootings and requested anonymity to talk candidly about her workpeople at Virginia Tech in 2007, she interviewed college students looking for missing friends. She thought, “I bet they will find them.”in a movie theater in Aurora, Colo. She recalls interviewing people searching for loved ones: “My brain was telling me they were probably not going to find their friend alive,” she says. “I still hate that I was right about that.
Mass shootings, or at least their immediate aftermath, are now widely covered on TV as well as social media. While shootings are obviously different from wars in all kinds of respects, and while reporters covering shootings don’t define themselves by this coverage as war correspondents do, the parallels are unmistakable.
“The experience of reporters coming upon those horrific scenes must be searing, in the same way it is for war correspondents,” Schudson told me, citing “the bodies on the floor, the crying, and the suffering.”After a gunman last spring at a school in Uvalde, Tex., Dylan Stableford, a senior editor at Yahoo News who has been involved with coverage of numerous mass shootings, unfortunately knew he and“Sadly, we had people on my staff, myself included, who had covered plenty of school shootings,” Stableford told me. “Even though it was a crazy amount of kids dying, we know how to do that. It’s a grim, sad reality.”
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