Journalist Gary Tippet has seen a lot of tragedy but when he was assigned to cover the Port Arthur massacre and stopped at a beautiful old tree where two little girls and their mother were murdered something broke in him and he could not stop the tears.

How do journalists carry the trauma of the stories they report .. and how do they protect the survivors from secondary trauma when they approach them for an interview on what is often the worst day of their life?

This is a fascinating and revealing first hand insight into news gathering by one of the Australian media’s most experienced and respected Walkley Award winning journalists. 

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