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• LSU campus stays open after slayings

  - 2007-12-15

  BATON ROUGE, La. -- Police searched for suspects Friday in the shooting deaths of two Louisiana State University students, and unlike other schools in the wake of the Virginia Tech massacre, the school decided against locking down the campus. Police patrols were increased on the 28,000-student campus, and...

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• Caption only: Thanks from Virginia Tech

  - 2007-11-18

  Members of the Virginia Tech community form the phrase VT Thanks You as part of the Hokies Thank the World event in Blacksburg, Va., Saturday. The message is in response to the global outpouring of support for the university and community following the deadliest shooting in U.S. history April 16....

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• Local grad returns to class at Virginia Tech

  - 2007-08-17

  LIVERMORE -- Adam Gehlert went back to college at Virginia Tech on Thursday. The 21-year-old Livermore High School graduate is returning to Virginia Tech, site of the nation's worst campus shootings last spring when Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 students and professors to death before turning a gun...

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• Local grad returns to Virginia Tech

  - 2007-08-16

  LIVERMORE -- Today Adam Gehlert will go back to college for his senior year. The 21-year-old Livermore High School graduate will be returning to Virginia Tech, site of the nation's worst campus shootings last spring when Seung-Hui Cho shot 32 students and professors to death before turning...

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• Hostages of non-news

  - 2007-07-01

  PRETEND THAT YOU ARE an editor of a major news distribution agency such as a newspaper, television network, or cable news show. Your job is to exercise news judgment and decide what stories your readers or viewers must know to have a pretty good idea of the important issues of...

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• Starting point

  - 2007-05-04

  The night before the April 16 shootings at Virginia Tech, one of the worst storms in 15 years blew across the mountains bringing high winds and torrential rains. With that storm, something evil blew into Blacksburg, Va. By now, the deeds of Seung-Hui Cho haunt nearly every citizen of...

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• Media backpedal on using shooter's videos

  - 2007-04-20

  NEW YORK -- With a backlash developing against the media for airing sickening pictures from Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, Fox News Channel said Thursday it would stop and other networks said they would severely limit their use. NBC News was the recipient Wednesday of Cho's package...

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• Media backpedal on using shooter's hate-filled videos

  - 2007-04-20

  NEW YORK -- With a backlash developing against the media for airing sickening pictures from Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, Fox News Channel said Thursday it would stop and other networks said they would severely limit their use. NBC News was the recipient Wednesday of Cho's package...

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• Media backpedal on using shooter's hate-filled videos

  - 2007-04-20

  NEW YORK -- With a backlash developing against the media for airing sickening pictures from Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui, Fox News Channel said Thursday it would stop and other networks said they would severely limit their use. NBC News was the recipient Wednesday of Cho's package...

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• From D.C. to Blacksburg, networks stayed on top

  - 2007-04-18

  As details about the Virginia Tech massacre continued to emerge Tuesday, cable and network news outlets credited veteran beat reporters at the Justice Department and other agencies in Washington, D.C. -- not at the scene -- with many of their scoops, which led the day's media coverage. ...

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