Amid breaking news deadlines, a kind gesture
Editor & Publisher’s Joe Strupp reports:
It wasn’t much — just a box of junk food goodies, the kind that reporters in the middle of a hectic, major story snack on to fill the hunger before the next deadline.
But to staffers at the St. Paul (Minn.) Pioneer Press and the Star Tribune in Minneapolis, it was a welcome gesture. And a sign that someone else understood what they had been going through since last Wednesday’s bridge collapse threw the area, and their newsrooms, into the chaos of covering a local tragedy of national proportions.
The boxes each newsroom received in recent days, filled with Moon Pies, pork rinds, and other treats, were likely meant more as a sign of sympathy than just a snack pack. That’s because those who sent them, editors at The Roanoke (Va.) Times, knew what their Twin Cities counterparts were going through.
It was just a few months ago that the Virginia paper was immersed in its own ongoing story of tragedy after the Virginia Tech shooting. And it continued a link. The Roanoke paper had received its own care package then — from the Oklahoma paper that lived through the trauma of the Timothy McVeigh terror bombing.
What a kind gesture. Kudos to the Pilot’s corporate sister paper in Roanoke and that paper’s editor, Carole Tarrant. And to the managing editor of The Oklahoman, Joe Hight.
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