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When we think of journalists experiencing trauma, we often think of war correspondents and yet trauma can happen in one’s own backyard. Two years ago, a shooting rampage in the small community of Kirkwood, Missouri left local journalists covering the murders of their friends and neighbors. Don Corrigan, editor of The Webster-Kirkwood Times, says he’s never seen journalism in the same light since that day.
Thank you so much for this segment. I completely identify with Don Corrigan. I was working for the NIU paper, the Northern Star, when a gunman came into a lecture hall and killed five students before killing himself. Covering that story alongside national media was both exhilarating and traumatic. I feel like Corrigan described his experience as close as I could have described my own.
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