# @michigandaily on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/Cpz-gH0Jon7
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/4801379-michigandaily-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-15T14:00:03.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** The Michigan Daily (@michigandaily) — https://gondola.cc/michigandaily

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#Statement: The first time I ever had to carry grief that did not belong to me was the day I began to report on survivors of former University of Michigan Athletics doctor Robert Anderson. Over a span of 37 years, more than 950 victims reported thousands of incidents of sexual abuse and misconduct at the hands of Anderson, remaining as likely the most sexual abuse allegations against a single person in United States history. 

There is an untold grief in reporting this kind of trauma, in reporting the tragedies that affect our schools and communities — the people we love and know — and what they ultimately leave behind. In time, even grief that does not belong to us has a way of becoming our own. 

College journalists are especially vulnerable to the weight of reporting. The world sees them as too young to understand the heaviness of grief or to report on the shootings that fracture their campuses, the homicides that destroy their student bodies, the bomb threats and sexual abuse scandals that define the way they reckon with themselves. But oftentimes, long after national news outlets have left, when press conferences become a rarity and towns begin to quiet again, student journalists and student-run newspapers become the last to remain, to understand, to painstakingly cover all that happens in between. And at a cost few are ever willing to make. What becomes of college journalists in the face of collective grief? What does it mean to grieve, to process, to become angry, to be in pain, to know joy and love and healing as a journalist first, and as a student last? 

To read more, click the link in our bio.

✍️: Sarah Akaaboune
📸: @annafuderphotography, Becca Mahon and @jxrzmy

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| Name | Username | Profile | Role |
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| The Michigan Daily | @michigandaily | https://gondola.cc/michigandaily | Newspaper |
| Anna Fuder | @annafuder | https://gondola.cc/annafuder | Photographer |

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