How Student Journalists Are Commemorating Their Friends and Teachers

Students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagle Eye newspaper publish their memorial issue after 17 were killed at their high school

by Nathalie Sczublewski

Published on April 6, 2018

As students awaited for the final bell of the day to release them for spring break, students at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Eagle Eye newspaper submitted their most important issue to print. The third quarter, special edition paper is a memorial issue honoring 14 of their classmates and three educators killed on February 14.

There isn’t a handbook that teaches journalists how to cover mass shootings. There isn’t a handbook that teaches people how to recover from a mass shooting either. The Eagle Eye staff are mass shooting survivors and lost friends and teachers. For some, they found that immersing into writing was therapeutic in their healing process. Others found it difficult at times to report stories. The class established a support system by assisting those who struggled to compose an article due to the subject matter.

Calls for curbing gun violence continue at South Florida town hall

by Nathalie Sczublewski

Published on April 4, 2018

With students, teachers and family members of victims of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in attendance, Democratic Congressman Ted Deutch hosted a town-hall meeting Tuesday evening to address legislation to prevent gun violence.
“We are here because the brave families who lost loved ones at Stoneman Douglas have stood up and through their courage, have set examples for the rest of us in all of the ways we should be looking to keep our schools safe and to prevent something like this from ever happening again,” Deutch said during the event at the Coral Springs Center for the Arts in Broward County. “And we also have to express our gratitude to the student survivors who have not allowed this issue to go by the wayside.”