Covering Wildfires

Covering wildfires: The devastating California fires change the landscape and journalism, writes Audrey Cooper.

“There is a perception that journalists simply take from the victims,” she writes. “We do take their stories, their photos. We do these things not because we relish it but because the public must know. There is power in the truth, even if it is a truth some would rather not see.”

 


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