Shootings, especially those involving children and schools, devastate communities and garner unprecedented media coverage. But with the flood of media attention, reporters must remember those who were affected by the terrible events and take the necessary precautions while covering such a delicate story.

In addition to the tipsheets and stories below, you can turn to the Dart Center for Journalism & Trauma, which has a page put together for how to cover a tragedy like the Newtown shooting. 

Related Tipsheets

• Children and Trauma: Interviewing Tips
  Black provides interview guidelines for reporters interviewing children who have been through traumatic events. She provides ...

By Susan Snyder and Dylan Purcell

The Philadelphia Inquirer

A series of racial attacks at a Philadelphia high school in late 2009 – and the school district's inadequate response – prompted The Inquirer to launch an investigation into school violence. Its seven-part series, "Assault on Learning", and follow-up stories published throughout the past year, showed that violence is widespread and underreported in the city's schools.

The five-member reporting team looked at violence among young children, how the district's main intervention system for helping students failed and how violent acts occurred in classrooms on a regular basis, disrupting the school ...