(CNN) -- The nation's news media are sure to cover the one-year anniversary of the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School extensively on Saturday. But for the most part, these news organizations say they will acquiesce to the requests of local community members and not report from Newtown, Connecticut, the town where Adam Lanza killed 20 first-graders and six adults at the now-demolished school on December 14, 2012. The massacre was the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history. CNN said in a statement that while it "plans to cover the one-year anniversary across our networks and platforms, we are respecting the wishes of the families, and we are not reporting from Newtown on Saturday."
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Saturday is one-year anniversary of mass shooting at Newtown, Connecticut, school
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CNN and most other news organizations say they won't report from town on Saturday
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Newtown officials had urged media to respect families, not descend on the small town
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