Luz Moreno-Lozano was driving back to Austin after a reporting assignment in New Braunfels in 2022 when she received a call from her editor. There had been a shooting at an elementary school in the South Texas town of Uvalde, and she was the closest Austin American-Statesman journalist to the scene. “I just turned around and headed straight there,” she recalled recently. “I stopped to get gas and food, because I didn’t know how long I would be there.”In Uvalde, she found her way to a community center where dozens of desperate parents were waiting to learn whether their children were alive or dead. She spent the next two days interviewing bereaved family members and attending press conferences about the mass shooting, in which nineteen…
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