Inside the newsroom: Are we numb to disasters?

SALT LAKE CITY —The conversations this week in the newsroom were about disasters. As a reporting staff, we did very little about landslides in Colombia in April, monsoons in Sri Lanka in May, and horrible floods during the summer in India and Bangladesh. All are far from home, but significant.We twice sent reporting teams to Texas to report on Hurricane Harvey and its aftermath, sent reporters to Puerto Rico and Florida for Hurricane Irma coverage (before Hurricane Maria darkened the islan