ANNAPOLIS, Md. _ The phone calls ended, the typing stopped. Silence filled the temporary newsroom.
For once, deadlines would wait.
The journalists at The Capital and Maryland Gazette newspapers _ the survivors _ stood and remembered their five slain colleagues. It was 2:33 p.m. Thursday, precisely one week after the attack.
Journalists elsewhere also fell silent. They paused and hushed at The Baltimore Sun, which owns the Capital Gazette. Newsrooms across the country, all over the world, had been asked to observe the moment.
"The tragedy ... tears at our hearts, tugs at our compassion and calls forth our fears for the safety of all those on the front lines of truth, accountability and journalistic pursuit," wrote presidents of The American Society of News Editors and Associated Press Media Editors.
In Annapolis, the journalists lighted five candles _ one for each victim.
Then editor Rick Hutzell rang a bell for each of those killed. It's a long tradition in the Capital Gazette, a company with newspapers tracing back nearly 300 years, to ring a bell before meetings.
"Every time we ring that bell, we're going to think about our friends," Hutzell said.
Faculty planned to gather in the atrium of the journalism school at the University of Maryland, College Park. Two of those killed _ editorial page editor Gerald Fischman, 61, and sportswriter John McNamara, 56, graduated from the journalism school. Editor and columnist Rob Hiaasen, 59, who was also killed, taught there.
"It's comforting to have everybody together," Dean Lucy Dalglish said. "It's horrible to think that you would have to do this. Everybody feels like there's more of a sense of community."
Those killed also include sales assistant Rebecca Smith, 34, and writer Wendi Winters, 65.
The gunman shot his way into The Capital newsroom last week and killed the five staff members. Police say he barricaded the back door before attacking the newspaper staff with a shotgun and smoke grenades. His victims were trapped inside.
Police arrested Jarrod W. Ramos, 38, of Laurel, who had a long-running grudge against the newspaper, shortly after the rampage. Officers say they found Ramos hiding under a desk in the newsroom with a 12-gauge, pump-action shotgun. He has been charged with five counts of first-degree murder.
