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"People Will Forget About Us": The Capital Gazette Shooting Survivors, Two Years Later

After the shooting at the Capital Gazette newspaper, the surviving staff resolve to rebuild their paper.
<em>Capital Gazette </em>journalists became subjects of news stories connected to the shooting. Reporter Rachael Pacella landed on the <em>Capital Gazette's</em> front page for testifying at the Maryland State House about gun violence.

On June 28, 2018, reporter Selene San Felice was working in her cubicle on a local story. By mid-afternoon, she and her colleagues at the Capital Gazette newspaper in Annapolis, Md., had become the subject of national news. Around 2:30 pm, a gunman had blasted his way into the newsroom and killed five members of the staff. San Felice hid under a desk and prayed.

San Felice worried that the shooting would barely register with the public, once it was no longer

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