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I\u2019ve been thinking about what journalists promise readers and our sources. We promise them the truth. We promise accuracy, honesty, credibility. We promise that they can trust the words we write.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But these promises mean nothing if the stories we tell aren\u2019t told with care, if we forget that journalism is, at its core, an inquiry into what it means to be human.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been thinking about what it means to honor that humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

* * *\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

On my first visit to the Durham County Courthouse, I\u2019m so worried about being turned away at the doors, as some of my classmates have. When I finally sit down in domestic violence court, it dawns on me that I didn\u2019t consider what to look for once I got in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I tell myself I\u2019m just here to observe, that I\u2019ll find a story next time. I watch the session unfold, listen for words I recognize, and feel the same way I do at sports events \u2014 the most basic rules apparent, but the technicalities, procedure, and players unfamiliar. I always end up watching the fans for most of the game anyway.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

At roll call, an assistant district attorney mentions that a defendant is being brought in from custody. I\u2019m surprised by the prospect of seeing something I\u2019ve only read about in the news.<\/span> I wonder if this man and his case are a story worth telling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t have to wait long. Halfway through the docket, a bailiff leads a man in a Durham County Jail jumpsuit to a seat at the front of the courtroom. I later learn his name is Juan Gomez. He\u2019s 32 years old. And he\u2019s looking for a plea deal after assaulting a woman.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But his case isn\u2019t what I find most interesting. His case isn\u2019t really what I end up writing about.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Minutes before Gomez\u2019s case is called, two older women quietly slide into the bench next to me. The younger of the two fumbles with her phone to silence it, then asks me to help. These women are nervous \u2014 the older woman wrings her hands and the other picks rhythmically at a scab. I follow their gaze and I realize why.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

They look at Gomez with sad eyes and sigh deeply. They watch a loved one sit just out of reach, his fate out of their control, and I feel my chest tighten. These are the scenes in the courtroom that I rarely read about.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

His victim, it turns out, is also in court. And suddenly, the two women are sharing a knowing glance with each other when they hear the ADA say her name, craning their necks to find her in the benches.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s palpable tension all around the courtroom and no one\u2019s saying a word to each other. I scribble down every sigh and every glance and make mental notes of how the air in the room feels so that I can relive it later when I write. It is startling to see the effects of a crime ripple in front of you.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This is the story I end up telling.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I realize, later, that this silent conversation won\u2019t be recorded in the court transcript. In Gomez\u2019s case file, there will be no document that describes how these two women held their breath when the judge accepted the plea. There will be no mention of the two women at all.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

* * *<\/span><\/p>\n

There\u2019s a line I once read from a T.S. Eliot poem that goes, \u201cAt the still point of the turning world.\u201d This is how that courtroom felt in those fifteen minutes, how it\u2019s preserved in my mind. A still point.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But the world keeps turning \u2014 the cases that come to court play out beyond the courtroom and the stories journalists tell continue off the page. It is easy to forget this.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

After the judge hands down her ruling, the defense attorney whisks the two women from the courtroom. I never found out how they knew Gomez. For days after, I kicked myself for this, for being too scared to approach them, too terrified that my questions would translate into violations of their privacy.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But even if I\u2019d found out, I don\u2019t think the story would have changed much.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What this piece illuminated for me is that what happens in the courtroom, and thus, the pieces journalists write, don\u2019t just implicate the names listed on the case file \u2014 the defendant and victim. Those two women could have been his mother and grandmother, his siblings, his friends \u2014 it was the fact that they <\/span>could <\/span><\/i>have been so many people impacted by this case and my reporting that struck me.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Rarely do we talk about this effect, the sadder echo of both victims\u2019 and defendants\u2019 loved ones, disassembled and undone by the justice system. But before that day, I also hadn\u2019t given much thought to how it played out in journalism.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The legal system does not always promise compassion. In journalism, the truth does not always promise humanity.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

But maybe I can promise it in my reporting, when I remember that the people who grant me their stories are trusting me with not only the present, but the future \u2014 that of their own, their loved ones, and the people they have yet to meet but one day might.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This doesn\u2019t mean sacrificing truth for compassion, but rather recognizing that sometimes the truth is far larger and more complex than we initially understand it to be. I am still trying to reconcile the necessity of telling a story and the impossibility of knowing it in all its totality.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And maybe I can promise humanity in the stories I choose to tell \u2014 stories that unfold when no one else is watching, when journalism becomes a testament to the still points in a world that never stops turning.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Editor\u2019s note: Reflections is a feature that encourages student journalists to explore how they have learned and grown from the stories they have written for The 9th Street Journal. It is funded by a grant from\u00a0<\/i>The Purpose Project<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n

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