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...different set of issues arises when reporters do gain access to victims. Jacqui Banaszynski, a reporter for the St. Paul Pioneer Press Dispatch, won a Pulitzer Prize last year for a lengthy series about a gay couple dying of AIDS. Privy to the most intimate details of the lives of both the men and their families, Banaszynski had to balance her sense of loyalty to her subjects against her desire to make the series as truthful as possible. "I would not print information so private that it would harm without enhancing," she says...
...suffer some of the same psychological effects as grieving survivors. "Even though most reporters don't have a close personal relationship with anyone killed," says Vanderlyn Pine, a sociology professor at the State University of New York, "the grief component is just as serious as ((for)) anyone who does." Banaszynski says the stress from working on her series took a toll on her physical health. Free-lance writer Joe Levine of New York City was haunted by dreams about AIDS after he completed a long profile of a man who was dying of the disease. Such experiences may hold...
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