Summary
Not quite the way Valentin, a senior staff photographer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and his companions-including Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, two Getty Images photographers, a Dutch newspaper correspondent, a Spanish radio reporter and a Panamanian television crew-had envisioned covering a major news event that wasn't quite the big, BIG story, but a big story nonetheless. Whatever the technique, it's being put to the test as news organizations have gotten a taste of what it may be like to cover Castro's death and the fallout from such a historic incident. Some news organizations have drafted game plans for covering a major change in Cuban leadership-the Miami Herald has had one since the early 1990s.
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Cuba Countdown
Scenes from Havana's José Martí International Airport at night, August 2, 2006:
Rain had leaked through the ceiling onto one of the seats near the departure gate. Birds were flying in through an opening in the roof. A group of international journalists waited for the first morning flight to Cancun.One of them, Angel Valentin, says the overnighter in the airport was, simply, "interesting."Not quite the way Valentin, a senior staff photographer at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and his companions-including Washington Post columnist Eugene Robinson, two Getty Images photographers, a Dutch newspaper correspondent, a Spanish radio reporter and a Panamanian television crew-had envisioned covering a major news event that wasn't quite the big, BIG story, but a big story nonetheless.For the first time in his 47 years as Cuba's president, Fidel Castro had put someone else in charge of the country, handing power primarily to his brother Raul. Fidel, who turned 80 a few weeks later, was recovering from intestinal surgery and requested that his announcement be read over Cuban television. Speculation was...See the full content of this document
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