Capital Gazette Keeps Working, And Publishing, After 5 Die In Newsroom Shooting

Staff of The Capital put out a newspaper on Friday, one day after a gunman killed five people in its offices at the Capital Gazette. Here, Steve Schuh, county executive of Anne Arundel County, Md., holds a copy of Friday’s paper.

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Updated 5:24 p.m. ET

“Today we are speechless,” reads the opinion page in Friday’s edition of The Capital, where the staff is still reeling after five of their colleagues were shot and killed. Despite Thursday’s attack, the staff put out a newspaper, with powerful reporting on its own tragedy.

That opinion page — A9 — sits almost entirely empty, with a huge blank space where columns and editorials would normally be.