Newtown school shooting: journalism naked in front of the mirror

18 December 2012

On 14 December 2012 a man identified by police as 20-year-old Adam Lanza fatally shot twenty children and six teachers at the Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, USA and then committed suicide. The breaking news coverage of this event, on both mainstream and social media, has raised major questions about the role of journalists when faced with dramatic and fast-changing news.

Our latest Spundge notebook is a selection of articles which consider the lessons to be learnt from the media coverage of this shocking event.