When local reporting indicated multiple people had been badly hurt in a shooting at a Wisconsin school on Dec. 16, Scott Bauer was the first AP journalist to get to the area.
He sent photos, live-streamed the first Q&A with Madison’s police chief from his cell phone and worked sources familiar with his years of reporting in Wisconsin. Newsperson Ed White in Detroit and text production editor Bernard McGhee worked together to quickly get text on the wire, and to make essential corrections when police gave inaccurate information.
Photographer Morry Gash’s patient work outside a Madison reunification center and a church secured images of families reunited with young children and teenage students boarding buses hours after the shooting had ended. Gash and videojournalist Mark Vancleave teamed up with public health writer Devi Shastri to provide sensitive coverage from a vigil outside Wisconsin’s state Capitol. As the week continued, Bauer and Madison-based reporter Todd Richmond worked with Ryan Foley in Iowa and Giovanna Dell’Orto in Minnesota to write about the victims, the shooter and the police investigation _ even as many connected to the school declined interviews. Sourcing by Foley secured a key court document on a California man ordered to turn over firearms after authorities found he had communicated with the Wisconsin shooter about his own plans for a mass shooting. Dell’Orto maintained contact with church and school officials for days, securing interviews that no other news outlet had.
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