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Can journalists and grieving communities coexist in tragedy?

FILE - Police stand watch as guests arrive for the service for Nevaeh Bravo at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, on June 2, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Bravo was killed in the elementary school shooting on May 24. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) A sign asking the media for privacy stands outside Hillcrest Cemetery during a burial service for one of the victims killed in the elementary school shooting on May 24, in Uvalde, Texas, Wednesday, June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) FILE - Police and members of a motorcycle enthusiast group, join to block the hearse used to transport the casket of Nevaeh Bravo after a funeral service at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, on June 2, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Bravo was killed in the elementary school shooting on May 24. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - Law enforcement personnel look on as the caskets for Irma Garcia and husband Joe Garcia are carried by pallbearers following a joint service at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, June 1, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Irma Garcia was killed in the elementary school shooting on May 24. Joe Garcia died two days later. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) FILE - Pallbearers, obscured by a barrier of police and fire vehicles, carry the casket of Amerie Jo Garza following funeral services at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, on May 31, 2022, in Uvalde, Texas. Garza was killed in the elementary school shooting, on May 24. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File) Two bikers from Guardians of the Children use their hats to block photojournalist Kevin Downs from covering a funeral service for Nevaeh Bravo, one of the victims killed in the elementary school shooting, in Uvalde, Texas, Thursday, June 2, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) FILE - Crosses bearing the names of the victims killed in the school shooting are seen through a balloon at a memorial at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on June 1, 2022. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Can journalists and grieving communities coexist in tragedy?