We Will Rise Documentary
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‘We Will Rise:’ The Story of the Apalachee High School Shooting
Twenty journalism students produced the documentary titled “We Will Rise: The Story of the Apalachee High School Shooting” as part of their capstone class at the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication. The students’ goal was to memorialize the tragedy, its immediate impact on the school, and how the…
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Resilience Through Unity: Apalachee Emerges Stronger Together
In the wake of tragedy, communities often find themselves at a crossroads between overwhelming grief and the resilient determination to heal and grow stronger. Grady Newsource reporter Quentin Yroz takes you to community gatherings and shared moments of reflection and prayer, to show you how the people of Barrow County…
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Love Will Prevail: Barrow Community Displays Strength, Resilience
In the months since the school shooting that claimed four lives in Barrow County, Georgia, in the fall of 2024, one message resounds throughout the community. Grady Newsource reporter Janai Wells shows you how what began as a devastating tragedy on Sept. 4 at Apalachee High School in Winder today…
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Students Reflect on Creating ‘We Will Rise’ Documentary
In the wake of the Apalachee High School shooting in the fall of 2024, members of a Reporting IV capstone class decided to pivot from their pre-planned team projects and function as a single unit to memorialize the tragedy. Grady student Elizabeth Rice produced these students’ reflections on their experience.…