text: Arizona editor to readers on covering chaos after Trump rally: 'That's about as real as it gets.' - Poynter Arizona editor to readers on covering chaos after Trump rally: 'That's about as real as it gets.' - Poynter
  Home Reporting & Editing Arizona editor to readers on covering chaos after Trump rally: 'That's about as real as it gets.'
  Protesters leave the area after Phoenix police used tear gas outside the Phoenix Convention Center, Tuesday, Aug. 22, 2017, in Phoenix. Protests were held against President Trump as he hosted a rally inside the convention center. (AP Photo/Matt York)
  Arizona Republic's editor, Nicole Carroll, heard from readers after President Trump's Tuesday night rally in Phoenix. Here's one email she got:
  On Thursday, Carroll wrote a response.
  But our job also is to be the eyes and ears of our community, to see and share what's happening. For the public to have informed opinions, it must have information.
  So here's what I would like everyone who wrote to me Wednesday, including Eliot, to know about what our team saw, and reported, Tuesday night.
  That night, she wrote, as objects were thrown at police outside the president's rally in Phoenix and police fired back with pepper spray and tear gas, 17 Republic journalists covered the chaos outside as it unfolded.
  17 @azcentral journalists were hit by spray/gas after the Trump rally. Eyes and throats burning, they kept working. https://t.co/PoMYpeURet
  — nicole carroll (@nicole_carroll) August 24, 2017
  Tempe councilman says police gassed him and others without warning outside Trump rally https://t.co/o59q6Nt75K Video by @photochowder pic.twitter.com/2vpDNUp2wm
  — azcentral (@azcentral) August 24, 2017
  Phoenix Police fire teargas at protesters after campaign rally #TrumpInPhoenix #TrumpRally #SheriffJoeArpaio @POTUS pic.twitter.com/pf0L3qSZm9
  Carroll tells the stories of her staff, where they were and what they experienced as they stayed to cover the story.
  We had live coverage of the president's rally inside the convention center.
  The Republic stood up for its work last year, too, after endorsing Hillary Clinton for president. Arizona Republic President Mi-Ai Parrish, who's also on Poynter's National Advisory Board, wrote about threats the newsroom received after and put names and faces to her staff.