For what it's worth I think there were mistakes made but things were not nearly as bad as some are making it out to be and that you are being perhaps a bit too hard on yourself. I can't remember the exact wording of the story tweet so I will only talk about the article itself.
I don't think there is anything wrong with speculation per se. Part of writing news is to put things in context and sometimes that will require speculation where exact evidence is missing. As the comment in question was a small aside, I don't think it was anything like trying to start some sort of conspiracy and it was clear that it was just speculation. If you really want to write the sort of news articles that are perfectly neutral and only informative, then it was a problem but I think few really take that line and not doing so is hardly a failing.
If one is going to speculate, one has to work with the information that is available and, in this case, that was what had been publicly stated. It turns out that was incomplete and the speculation was wrong. It happens. There were factors that were unknown but, as Glaide's death was not part of the announcement, even if you had learned that he had died, it would have also been speculation to attribute the closure of the convention to that.
Edit: Something I forgot to mention earlier. There has been some criticism about Sonious not getting a comment from Dragoneer. While that is valid, I will note that I have tried to get comment from Dragoneer in the past and he refused to make one due to his own personal grudges against Flayrah. With no reasons to suspect a change, it is unlikely that asking Dragoneer for comment would've changed the situation.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~
For what it's worth I think there were mistakes made but things were not nearly as bad as some are making it out to be and that you are being perhaps a bit too hard on yourself. I can't remember the exact wording of the story tweet so I will only talk about the article itself.
I don't think there is anything wrong with speculation per se. Part of writing news is to put things in context and sometimes that will require speculation where exact evidence is missing. As the comment in question was a small aside, I don't think it was anything like trying to start some sort of conspiracy and it was clear that it was just speculation. If you really want to write the sort of news articles that are perfectly neutral and only informative, then it was a problem but I think few really take that line and not doing so is hardly a failing.
If one is going to speculate, one has to work with the information that is available and, in this case, that was what had been publicly stated. It turns out that was incomplete and the speculation was wrong. It happens. There were factors that were unknown but, as Glaide's death was not part of the announcement, even if you had learned that he had died, it would have also been speculation to attribute the closure of the convention to that.
Edit: Something I forgot to mention earlier. There has been some criticism about Sonious not getting a comment from Dragoneer. While that is valid, I will note that I have tried to get comment from Dragoneer in the past and he refused to make one due to his own personal grudges against Flayrah. With no reasons to suspect a change, it is unlikely that asking Dragoneer for comment would've changed the situation.
"If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind."
~John Stuart Mill~