Newspaper reporter says massacre hasn’t sunk in
Posted December 14, 2012 9:14 pm.
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DANBURY, CT (NEWS1130) – It’s been an exhausting day for reporters covering the nightmare in Newtown.
News1130 tracked down a newspaper reporter who was dispatched to cover what was initially a simple shooting.
“The enormity of the event still hasn’t sunk in,” says Libor Jany, a breaking news reporter with the News -Times paper in Danbury, about 15 miles from Newtown.
He says their newsroom was first alerted to a shooting from a Tweet issued by someone who monitors emergency scanners.
He was quickly dispatched, then spent the rest of the day talking with children who survived, their parents, and Tweeting updates.
He says he’s exhausted but is driven to find some answers and so will back in Newtown throughout the weekend.
“As tired as we are, I don’t think there are any reporters who want to walk away from the story. There questions out there,” he explains.
“That instinct kicks in when you’re covering a tragic story, and I’m still in that mindset.”
And the coming days will bring more challenges for reporters.
“Once we find out the names of the victims, the more difficult task for us reporters begins. We start knocking on doors to piece together their life stories.”
