Broadcast journalists have a special role to play during major news stories. Whether it’s Beaconsfield or Port Arthur, the Bali bombings or 9/11, Ash Wednesday or the Sydney Siege, the faces and voices who bring us rolling coverage of a tragedy walk an incredibly fine line.
The best of them manage to combine empathy, sensitivity, authority and information. They ask the questions we have in our heads and they relay the emotions we feel in our hearts.
And it’s far, far harder than it looks.
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.RT @nswpolice: Commissioner Scipione: "We are very contained and have tight controls and restrictions around the area." #MartinPlace
— Melissa Doyle (@melissadoyle) December 15, 2014