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After a Florida school shooting left 17 people dead, Post reporters Kevin Sullivan, Samatha Schmidt, Mark Berman, Kyle Swenson, William Wan and others worked around the clock to gather as much detail as possible about what had happened. They sent David Fahrenthold, who'd been assigned to write a reconstruction of the rampage, interviews with survivors and the shooter's friends and neighbors, haunting text messages from inside the school, and transcripts from news conferences.
Fahrenthold is best known to readers for his relentless reporting on Donald Trump's philanthropy, which won him a Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2017. But he is also a master at anchoring gripping reconstructions — often referred to in newsrooms as ticktocks — of everything from political showdowns to natural disasters. "It's all dependent on the material," said Fahrenthold, who began working at The Post as an intern almost 18 years ago. He uses a Word document to arrange what his colleagues are sending him chronologically, "so I can tell the story like a movie."
Fahrenthold is a high-speed storyteller. He didn't start writing his reconstruction until 4:15 Thursday afternoon. "The editors were coming over and saying, 'How are you doing?' And I had one sentence written.'' As he crafted his narrative, more information was flooding in from a police news conference and The Post's reporters on the ground in Parkland. But three hours later, he'd finished a searing front-page story.
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— Lynda Robinson, Local Enterprise Editor
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