Newsroom security is a big worry among journalists in the wake of the Islamic terrorist attack that killed 10 Charlie Hebdo journalists in Paris Tuesday, but it’s not a new issue in this country.
“Because I was working in a North Carolina newsroom at the time, this week’s Paris massacre immediately made me think of the 1988 hostage-taking at the Lumberton newspaper — no casualties there, thank goodness. But 21 people died in the infamous Los Angeles Times bombing of 1910 and there must be other examples,” said Frostburg State University English professor Andy Duncan in Maryland.
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