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'They Were Ready To Go': Capital Gazette Publisher On Newsroom's Response To Tragedy
ResumeA gunman attacked the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Maryland, last week, leaving five dead and two others injured. As Gazette reporters mourn their colleagues, they are covering a national story about gun violence brought painfully close to home.
Meanwhile, newsrooms across the country are grappling with security concerns amid rhetorical hostility toward journalists.
Trif Alatzas (@trifalatzas), publisher and editor-in-chief of the Baltimore Sun Media Group, which owns the Capital Gazette, joins Here & Now's Jeremy Hobson to discuss these issues and how newsrooms have coped following the violence.
This segment aired on July 3, 2018.