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Yes, we’re putting out a damn paper tomorrow.
I can tell you this: We are putting out a damn paper tomorrow.
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Tomorrow this Capital page will return to its steady purpose of offering readers informed opinion about the world around them. But today, we are speechless.
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Today, the Capital Gazette lost five members of our family. Stories on all five bright, wonderful lives will be included in the following tweets.
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After a career in fashion and public relations in New York City, Wendi Winters built a reputation as a prolific freelance reporter and well-known community resource at the Capital Gazette.
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Gerald Fischman’s personality was so quiet and withdrawn that it hid the brilliant mind, wry wit and “wicked pen” that his colleagues would treasure.
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John McNamara was remembered by his colleagues for his flexibility, concise writing and extensive knowledge of regional sports.
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Rob Hiaasen’s wryly observant writing style and his generous mentoring of young journalists assured him of roles in several newsrooms, including the Capital Gazette.
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Rebecca Smith was a recent hire at the Capital Gazette but had already proved herself a valuable asset.
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Normally, we cover the Fourth of July parade in Annapolis. Today, though, we’ll be part of it. We want our readers and our community to see that we believe things will, eventually, be OK again.
Eventually.
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Five people were killed and several others were “gravely injured” in a shooting at the Capital Gazette office, according to police. A shooter is in custody.
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Keith and Jacquelyn Smith danced Friday night at the American Legion on Madison Street in Baltimore, where they had brought his daughter to celebrate her birthday. Hours later, he found himself rushing Jacquelyn to the emergency room.
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”We are not the enemy,” Capital reporter Pat Furgurson told the crowd. “We’re you.” Mourners gather for victims of the Capital Gazette shooting.
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From the moment gunfire rang out at the Capital Gazette newsroom, journalists there began covering their own tragedy.
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The Pulitzer Prize Board awarded a special citation to the staff of the Capital Gazette for their work covering the attack last June on the newsroom that killed five employees -- Gerald Fischman, Rob Hiaasen, John McNamara, Rebecca Smith and Wendi Winters.
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The White House has reversed its decision and will permit Annapolis mayor Gavin Buckley to lower U.S. flags to half-staff in remembrance of the mass shooting at the Capital Gazette office last week.
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Today's special edition of The Capital tells the stories of strength and healing one year to the day after the horrific shooting in our newsroom.
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Annapolis Mayor Gavin Buckley is pressing for President Trump to order that American flags be lowered to half-staff nationwide.
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Our owner has set up a fundraiser for families, victims and survivors. The Michael and Jacky Ferro Family Foundation will match up to $1 million of donations.
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"Wendi Winters saved my life": Capital Gazette staff say their fallen colleague charged the shooter.
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"I watched John McNamara die. I had to step over Wendi Winters to escape. I said “f---” on CNN.
If your help ends at thoughts and prayers, I don’t want them. What I want is action."
From
@seleniepanini
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The
@UF
has created an investigative journalism position in honor of Rob Hiaasen, who was killed in the June 28 attack on our newsroom.
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Joe Biden in Annapolis: John McCain is an American hero, facing an ugly disease.
@rachaelpacella
@pwgphoto
covering Naval Academy Distinguished Graduate awards.
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Three years after an attack on our newsroom, we honor our fallen colleagues with their own words about Annapolis. Check out today's edition of The Capital at:
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An Anne Arundel County judge sentenced the man who blasted his way into the Capital Gazette newsroom and killed five people to five life sentences without the possibility of parole Tuesday.
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"As newsrooms worldwide observe a moment of silence at 2:33 p.m. today to honor the five staff members of The Capital killed in an act of violence, I want to tell you about those who must now move on."
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See today's special edition of the Capital Gazette, honoring our fallen friends and colleagues. The eNewspaper is included with a print subscription or part of our digital subscription platform. Try it at:
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At 2:33 p.m. today, please join us in a moment of silence to honor the five members of our Capital Gazette family that we lost in last week's deadly attack.
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Today's shooting at the Capital Gazette newsroom marked a rare fatal attack against journalists in the U.S.
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Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan on Tuesday eased several coronavirus restrictions in the state, including lifting all capacity limits at restaurants and opening up large indoor and outdoor venues at 50% capacity, while keeping in effect the state’s mask mandate.
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Evil failed. But it took the lives of five of our colleagues — Rob Hiaasen, Wendi Winters, John McNamara, Gerald Fischman and Rebecca Smith. We mourn them again today in simple ceremonies, moments of silence, and fresh rounds of tears.
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ICYMI: Former VP
@JoeBiden
accepted the
@NavalAcademy
Alumni Association’s Distinguished Graduate Award on behalf of
@SenJohnMcCain
in Annapolis. Story and full video:
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A Washington journalist decided to organize a fundraiser through GoFundMe after today's shooting at the Capital Gazette office.
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Anne Arundel County police arrested and charged a Pasadena man Tuesday after they say he threatened last week to shoot people in the industrial machine shop where he worked.
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Nearly 500 people packed under a tent at the Irvine Nature Center, to honor Capital Gazette victim Rob Hiaasen. They wore shorts and casual dress because he wasn't a formal kind of guy.
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At 2:33 p.m. Thursday, please join us in a moment of silence to honor the five members of our Capital Gazette family that we lost in last week's deadly attack.
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At 2:33 p.m. a moment of silence will honor Gerald Fischman, editorial page editor; Rob Hiaasen, an editor and columnist; John McNamara, a sportswriter, news reporter and editor; Rebecca Smith, a sales assistant, and Wendi Winters, community news editor.
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Capital Gazette shooting suspect Jarrod Ramos has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.
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Capital Gazette shooting suspect Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, filed a defamation lawsuit against the paper and a columnist in 2012.
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On Wednesday night, the newspaper staff chose to march in the parade as a show of solidarity with a community.
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"A law enforcement official said the suspect had mutilated his fingers in a possible effort to thwart identification."
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Our Say: Wendi Winters died protecting her friends, her newsroom and freedom of the press. She should be nominated for the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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By Chase Cook, Phil Davis, Selene San Felice, E.B. Furgurson III, Rachael Pacella, Danielle Ohl, Joshua McKerrow, Paul W. Gillespie, David Broughton and Bob Hough.
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President Joe Biden sent a letter to The Capital dated Aug. 3 in support of the Capital Gazette and the freedom of the press in the aftermath of the June 2018 mass shooting at the newspaper office and the recent trial verdict. Read the letter here:
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@TIME
“It’s a great and terrible honor. I hate being the story. I think everyone here would rather that we not be for obvious reasons.” —
@HutzellRick
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On Independence Day, Annapolis welcomes 30 new citizens from 22 countries in naturalization ceremony
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Like you, we’re waiting for justice to be done upon the man who cruelly took Rebecca, John, Gerald, Wendi and Rob from us and their families. We’re waiting patiently because we want the outcome to be fair and final.
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Beyond the newsroom, Wendi Winters identified herself as a “proud Navy mom,” a church youth adviser, a Red Cross volunteer and a Girl Scout leader who could “make a mean s’more.”
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A white man will soon be sentenced for stabbing a Black college student to death at a bus stop at the University of Maryland in what prosecutors say was a racially motivated crime.
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He would capture the people of The Capital, as many as he could: the reporters, editors, photographers. The ones who helped heal their shattered newsroom in the wake of the shooting. The families of those who had been killed.
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"He needed to laugh the way he needed oxygen." Colleagues recall the deft and gentle touch Rob Hiaasen applied to his writing, and his life.
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The unanimous votes establish June 28 as “Freedom of the Press Day,” in honor of the five victims who died in the Capital Gazette shooting on that date last year.
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Sen. John McCain, who died Saturday of brain cancer, will be buried at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis.
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The memorials for the lives lost at the Capital continue to grow.
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An Anne Arundel County jury ruled Thursday the man who killed five Capital Gazette employees was sane, therefore criminally responsible, during the attack that shocked the tight-knit town of Annapolis and that he is culpable for his crimes.
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Capital Gazette staffer Rebecca Smith remembered by family, friends as "beautiful soul"
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Police: Family and friends seeking information about the Capital Gazette shooting can call 410-768-5522.
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Gerald Fischman was the guardian against libel, the arbiter of taste and a peculiar and endearing figure in a newsroom full of characters.
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As a writer, Rob Hiaasen was drawn to quirky stories, and had a unique way of telling them, with wry asides and internal and imagined dialogues.
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After their bus broke down,
@NavyWLax
used 10 Uber vehicles and two private cars to get to Klockner Stadium for its first-round NCAA tournament game, then routed High Point, 16-5.
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All are determined to wrest back control of their lives to whatever degree they can, if only as a show of defiance — a refusal to let events, no matter how horrific, transform who they are. But inescapably, things are different.
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On the two year mark of the June 28, 2018 Capital Gazette shooting, the feelings of trauma return. But family members told The Capital the emotions ring true on other milestones, too. Days when the world isn’t watching.
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The funerals are over.
We regret we didn’t know our friends better.
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“I disregard and discount anything that involves the mainstream media press,” the Republican said — weeks after five newspaper employees in his home state were gunned down.
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Precisely one week after the attack on their newsroom, the journalists of
@capgaznews
stood and remembered their five slain colleagues. Elsewhere, journalists fell silent as well.
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Commentary: Today, we will say their names and remember. We will say their names and cry. We will say their names and mourn. And we will say their names and celebrate. Wendi, Rob, Rebecca, John and Gerald.
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The Capital Gazette Memorial Scholarship Fund will provide an annual award for select students pursuing journalism at the University of Maryland College Park.
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In a time when our own lives were shattered, the folks on Maryland Avenue let us into their world.
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Maryland state Sen. Bill Ferguson, a Baltimore Democrat, is sponsoring a bill that would authorize Maryland's 10 Electoral College votes to go to the winner of the national popular vote for president.
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Rebecca Smith described herself as an “endo warrior,” dog mom, softball fiance, and “Bonus Mom to the best kid ever.”
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Fellow journalists remember victims of shooting at Annapolis memorial.
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John McNamara “never allowed his professional distance to detract from just being a thoroughly decent person” -- and he had a sneaky left-handed basketball shot.
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Our Say: We’re not coordinating with other news organizations today because President Trump's opinion, frankly, is just not that important to us. We are far more concerned about what this community thinks of us.
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Capital Gazette's John McNamara eulogized as exemplary reporter who loved sports, community journalism
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Congressman's office confirms White House declined initial request to lower U.S. flags for Capital Gazette victims
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Gov. Larry Hogan proclaimed Sunday Freedom of the Press Day in honor of the five Capital Gazette employees murdered two years ago to the day in 2018.
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Gov. Wes Moore proclaims Sunday to be ‘Beyoncé Day’ in Maryland
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Memorial services set for Capital Gazette staffers Hiaasen, Winters.
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Lt. Ryan Frashure knew the address. He thought the text meant another routine cop call from the newsroom.
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Students affected by the shooting at Great Mills High School rallied in Annapolis today, despite pouring rain, in honor of the victims of another Maryland shooting — at the
@capgaznews
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Check out today's edition of the Capital Gazette. The eNewspaper is included with a print subscription or part of our digital subscription platform. Try it at:
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Vice Adm. Sean Buck clearly made the right decision this week when he announced the Naval Academy will hold a virtual ceremony for midshipmen on May 22, the editorial board writes.
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The day would honor the First Amendment, which protects a free press, as well as the five who were killed in the newsroom attack on June 28, 2018.
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The five victims of the
@capgaznews
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Crew members of the USS Annapolis signed the banner, writing messages of encouragement: “A free press is the beating heart of that which we defend.”
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Good Charlotte is the first major act committed to a music festival honoring press freedom in Annapolis.
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Wendi Winters' son: “Her day’s schedule was filled with so many events. You could plan for her showing up late, late — but with a great story to tell."
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Editorial: How do you navigate a world where you can be shot to death in any conceivable location? This is about guns, but more than guns. It is about unbridled hate, powered by the internet and armed through easy access to deadly firepower.
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Jimmy DeButts: It’s unconscionable to allow anyone with a history of domestic violence, stalking or harassment convictions to gain access to guns.
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