How the Media Can Improve its Coverage of Newtown Anniversary, Tragedies

By: Mallary Jean Tenore | IVOH

There’s been a lot of talk about Newtown’s request that the media “stay away” on the one-year anniversary of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.

Newtown selectman Pat Llodra recently told journalists: “We are on a grief journey and we are healing and the media can be an impediment to that healing because it creates some barriers that are difficult for our community.”