Reporter Shares Lessons From Visiting Family of Sandy Hook Shooting's Youngest Victim
A couple of weeks ago I mentioned the remarkable work of Naomi Zeveloff, a reporter at the Jewish Daily Forward. She received well-earned praise for her detailed and sensitive profile of the mother of the youngest victim of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. I've since had the opportunity to talk with Zeveloff, and you can find my "Five Questions" interview over at EdMedia Commons.
One of the things I wanted to know was how Zeveloff prepared for an assignment as potentially laden with emotion as visiting a family while they were sitting shiva -- the traditional Jewish period of mourning -- for a 6-year-old. Here's what Zeveloff, a 2011 graduate of the Columbia Journalism School's political reporting program, told me:
There’s another reporter at The Forward, Paul Berger, who writes a lot about families who have