Grief

  • In Depth

    May 24 2004

    Breaking Tragic News

    By Penny Cockerell

    It’s near deadline. A story about a tragic killing comes across my desk and it’s my job to get comments from the family. I make the dreaded call and gently ask for reaction to the news — only to learn that the family doesn’t yet know. What now?

  • Behind the Story

    Married to a War Reporter

    By Melanie Anstey

    My husband has reported on just about every single war. Since I met him 19 years ago he has been in Bosnia, Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Gulf War One, Israel, and then in 1991 he went to Croatia where he was shot through the abdomen.

  • Booklet

    Breaking Bad News

    This booklet is intended to offer informal guidance in circumstances where journalists, their editors or managers are required to tell next-of-kin of the death of a colleague.

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