Journalism in the midst of trauma: Reporting deaths like a cricket match
- 13 AUGUST 2013
- BY AMANTHA PERERA
My first footsteps into a newsroom took me into a macho-man bastion, where I remember seeing a quasi-defence correspondent in faded jeans and a white shirt hastily folded up to the elbows banging away on a typewriter. The image would not be complete without a cigarette dangling from the edge of his mouth, spewing one profanity after another as he typed away.
