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Over the past year, media coverage of Littleton,
Colorado, has been extensive, and for some, excessive. Anniversary
coverage last month took families and friends of victims and the
survivors back in memory to the fears and terror of April 20,
1999.
While the victims do not have control over media coverage, journalists
do. For the next two months, the Dart Center for Journalism and
Trauma will provide weekly reports on news coverage of the Columbine
tragedy, with special emphasis on trauma and its role in the aftermath
for survivors, journalists and members of the community.
The series will examine photographs and interviews used a year
ago and in recent days. Reporters and photographers will talk
about covering Columbine and scientists will tell how trauma effects
explode out of such an event to impact layer after layer of people,
from public-safety workers to the journalists themselves.
We hope this project will spur discussions in newsrooms across
the country about ways to report violence without aggravating
the harm to its victims.
In the second part of this series, we will consider the experience
of one photographer who covered Columbine.
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