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Lessons for media educators from the Virginia on-air shootings

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imageCoverage of slain TV journalists from the station where they worked.WDBJ7

As a professor specializing in broadcast communication, I have tried to find lessons to teach aspiring journalists following the shooting of two TV journalists this week.

When I first heard about the shootings in Virginia of reporter Alison Parker and...

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