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What must be the most challenging assignment
On Tuesday of this week, the unthinkable happened at my old high school JDSS in Hanover Ontario. Single vehicle car crash with 3 youth passed away and 1 in London hospital.
For the local reporters who work and live in the same community and where there own kids go to the same school this must very challenging to cover a story like this professionally, then go home and try to explain this to your kids.
Hanover has a weekly newspaper and a radio station, with a daily paper out of Owen Sound, CKNX out of Wingham, and CFOS from Owen Sound.
The CBC did sent a reporter to Hanover, but I am not sure where she was sent from.
Do reporters get any kind of support when covering stories like this or are you expected to keep a stiff upper lip and just keep going and move onto the next story.
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CBC Lisa Xing from Toronto. Control room seemingly ran her first take as she interrupted herself, had a word with the cameraman and started from the top. At that point they immediately went back to anchor Dwight Drummond.
This bad news story brought to mind a terrible auto crash in Oakville February 1974. A car with 8 teenagers, 15, 16 years old went over the cliff at 16 Mile Creek. All perished.
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With my previous employer, we had access to an EAP (including mental health and grief counselling) as part of our employee benefits, and I'm certain that at least a couple of my co-workers used it in the late 2010s, after two local junior B hockey players died and two others were injured in a single-vehicle crash near Calabogie. Airing the live broadcast of the next game, including pre-game tributes to the deceased players, was not easy for the commentators or myself, the technical producer for the junior hockey broadcasts.
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67GreenRambler wrote:
CBC Lisa Xing from Toronto. Control room seemingly ran her first take as she interrupted herself, had a word with the cameraman and started from the top. At that point they immediately went back to anchor Dwight Drummond.
This bad news story brought to mind a terrible auto crash in Oakville February 1974. A car with 8 teenagers, 15, 16 years old went over the cliff at 16 Mile Creek. All perished.
Could this have happened on the Upper Middle Rd? Today it is a four lane major road. A bridge over the 16 Mile Creek was completed in 1993. Back then it was arural road with no street lights and obviously a dead end. It is a very steep cliff with part of the Glen Abbey Golf Course below.
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Many reporters who covered some or all of the Paul Bernardo case described struggling with their emotions as they reported the most disturbing aspects of the trial. Some admitted they needed therapy to come to terms with what they’d heard in the courtroom. A few even left the business to pursue other careers in the aftermath of Bernardo’s conviction.
Former TV and newspaper journalist Tamara Cherry now specializes in what she calls “trauma-informed” journalism and works with both reporters and the victims of crime to help them understand and process what they need to do to move on.