1.0 link 87203 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hassan-s-ali/covering-a-tragedy_b_87203.html It was 5 a.m. the day after a gunman shot and killed five students at Northern Illinois University, and like so many other reporters that morning, I found myself on an hour-long drive to yet another grieving college campus. I was chasing the same story as all the global news outlets with big cameras and pretty anchors with hair and make-up teams, but I soon discovered that those quaffed reporters weren't any closer to the story than I had been...

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