Amid tragedy, dedicated reporting in fatal Kirkland city council shooting
You’ve probably heard already about the fatal shooting in Kirkland, but I couldn’t help to notice this detail in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s story:
Dave Bundy, the editorial director for the Suburban Journals, said that one of the newspaper’s reporters, Todd Smith, was injured in the attack.
“We don’t know if it was a ricochet or what, but it hit him in the hand and shattered a bone or two,” said Bundy, who spoke with Smith in the St. Johns’ emergency room.
As medics were removing him from the scene, Bundy said, Smith called his editor and asked that a replacement be sent to city hall to continue reporting the story.
It’s not my intention to make light of this tragedy at all, but I must admire Smith’s dedication to the job and thinking about the story first. It’s hearing about something such as this that makes me think that journalism is far from dead.
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