A New Documentary Goes Inside the Untouched Bedrooms of School Shooting Victims
Rolling Stone | 02.12.2025 00:58
For close to two decades, CBS News reporter Steve Hartman has been responsible for finding uplifting stories in a news cycle dominated by tragedy and alarm. The hardest part by far, he says, has been covering school shootings, an epidemic that’s only continued to increase in the U.S. since the infamous 1999 Columbine school shooting. (In 2025 alone, there have been 70 school shootings, CNN reports.) This focus on uplifting angles, whether that was an unexpected hero or a story of a devastated community banding together to take care of each other, worked for ratings — but it left Hartman exhausted.
