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Student journalist draws lessons for media from her own tragedy and how it was covered

Third-year journalism student, Laura Nicholson, vivdly recalls the murder-suicide that left her an orphan and what she wished the journalists covering the event and aftermath would have done:  "be sensitive to the reputations of the dead. Even though they are not alive to defend themselves, the family is left to pick up the pieces of…

Third-year journalism student, Laura Nicholson, vivdly recalls the murder-suicide that left her an orphan and what she wished the journalists covering the event and aftermath would have done:  "be sensitive to the reputations of the dead. Even though they are not alive to defend themselves, the family is left to pick up the pieces of emotional turmoil as a result of false information."

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