Uvalde Newspaper Publisher Urges Community Journalists to Pay More Attention Before Tragedies Strike

We and communities like Uvalde are seldom singled out. Community journalism is not at the top of everybody’s list. I guess it seems mundane to people in larger areas. They don’t think that small towns have much going on.

But it is that commitment that we’ve made to our communities to record their history with accuracy and dignity that actually prepares us for something like a mass school-shooting.

What happened in Uvalde was crushing. It continues to be an enormous weight on many of our shoulders, especially the families of...