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Journalist who wrote about gun violence was killed in mass shooting in Buffalo¹

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The Challenger is a Black-owned, woman-owned newspaper in Buffalo, N.Y. One of its journalists, Katherine Massey, was killed in the grocery store attack this month that left 10 African Americans dead.

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The Challenger is a widely circulated, Black-owned newspaper in Buffalo. One of its journalists, Katherine Massey, was killed in the grocery store attack this month that left 10 people dead and three others wounded. NPR's Alana Wise has more.

ALANA WISE, BYLINE³: Leah Hamilton helps run the newspaper, a family business, alongside her sister and mother. Before the shooting, the Tops grocery store just blocks away was a major distribution center for the free weekly. Hamilton has since been handing out bundles of the paper, 16,000 printed each week, by foot.

LEAH HAMILTON: We distribute, like, about 1,000 papers out of that one location between Thursday and Sunday.

WISE: People ask for the challenger by name.

HAMILTON: So there are people who have never picked up a Challenger before that I'm sure are getting one. You're welcome. And then there are people who are relying on it that would come by the office and get them because they couldn't find them. Would you like a Challenger?

WISE: They comment on the front page portrait of the victims.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Thank you.

HAMILTON: Oops. Sorry. Thank you.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Have a good weekend. Thank you.

HAMILTON: You, too.

UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Oh, that's a beautiful picture, honestly.

WISE: This trip is Hamilton's first time venturing to the memorial that stands in front of Tops.

HAMILTON: Oh, wow. This is overwhelming.

WISE: Here, flowers, balloons and candles commemorate⁴ the lives lost. Hamilton describes Massey as the kind of journalist who held others to account. But she never let the tough topics harden her.

HAMILTON: You could feel her warmth coming through that phone because she wanted to make sure we got her article and, you know, just a real solid journalist.

WISE: Hamilton said that one of Massey's main writing subjects was gun violence.

HAMILTON: It's just uncanny that her article about gun control and gun violence - and she was a victim of it. It's just - it's heart wrenching⁵. It tears me up.

WISE: Hamilton talks about how important Kat was for the Challenger, how important the Challenger is for the community.

HAMILTON: Our name says it, community news. So we tell the news. And the community tells the news. And we do this together. We are a unit. And one can't work without the other.

WISE: Kat Massey took that message especially to heart.

HAMILTON: She insisted on being a subscriber⁶. And she insisted on paying for her subscription⁷. I mean, because our writers, you know, we'll send them the paper. But she insisted. She's like, well, I want to make sure I pay. And you can always just feel her kindness and her warmth through the phone, you know? And it's just like, wow. And I was going through the subscriptions⁸ and putting the labels on the envelopes, and her label came up. It was just - it was bigger than that moment. It was bigger than the actual thing. It was that family thing I'm talking about, that connection that you have to the people that support what you do, and she did.

WISE: Kat Massey was laid to rest on Monday.

Alana Wise, NPR News, Buffalo, N.Y.

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1 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

4 commemorate   

vt.纪念，庆祝

参考例句：

• This building was built to commemorate the Fire of London.这栋大楼是为纪念“伦敦大火”而兴建的。
• We commemorate the founding of our nation with a public holiday.我们放假一日以庆祝国庆。

5 wrenching   

n.修截苗根，苗木铲根（铲根时苗木不起土或部分起土）v.（猛力地）扭( wrench的现在分词 )；扭伤；使感到痛苦；使悲痛

参考例句：

• China has been through a wrenching series of changes and experiments. 中国经历了一系列艰苦的变革和试验。 来自辞典例句
• A cold gust swept across her exposed breast, wrenching her back to reality. 一股寒气打击她的敞开的胸膛，把她从梦幻的境地中带了回来。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

6 subscriber   

n.用户，订户；（慈善机关等的）定期捐款者；预约者；签署者

参考例句：

• The subscriber to a government loan has got higher interest than savings. 公债认购者获得高于储蓄的利息。 来自辞典例句
• Who is the subscriber of that motto? 谁是那条座右铭的签字者？ 来自辞典例句

7 subscription   

n.预订，预订费，亲笔签名，调配法，下标（处方）

参考例句：

• We paid a subscription of 5 pounds yearly.我们按年度缴纳5英镑的订阅费。
• Subscription selling bloomed splendidly.订阅销售量激增。

8 subscriptions   

n.（报刊等的）订阅费( subscription的名词复数 )；捐款；（俱乐部的）会员费；捐助

参考例句：

• Subscriptions to these magazines can be paid in at the post office. 这些杂志的订阅费可以在邮局缴纳。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Payment of subscriptions should be made to the club secretary. 会费应交给俱乐部秘书。 来自《简明英汉词典》