2 things newsrooms everywhere should do to cover the cops and the community
There are two very important things newsrooms should do in every community to document the…
April 29, 2015
Police and crime reporting
Access to police body camera videos: The Wild West of open records requests
This is another in a series of articles by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of…
April 15, 2015
Crime coverage in Chicago may be too good
Chicago is widely known as “Chiraq” or the “murder capital” even though its murder rate…
September 5, 2014
Cop to reporter: ‘You’re going to be in my jail cell tonight’
There's really only one media story this morning.
August 14, 2014
Public usually has right to know names of officers who used deadly force, court rules
Los Angeles Times “Vague safety concerns” don’t trump the public’s right to know the names…
May 29, 2014
The right way to publish a killer’s deranged manifesto
“Help us understand what compels someone to be so hateful and mysogonistic.”
May 27, 2014
How to cover what comes next in the Pennsylvania school stabbing case
Pittsburgh-area newsrooms now must live through the reality of covering a mass casualty attack, just…
April 9, 2014
No-knock policy bars TV station staff from rapping on crime suspects’ doors
A Houston television station is telling its staff not to knock on the doors of…
April 7, 2014
Reporter undergoes deployment of Taser technology
Remembers "an endless, relentless, sheer and utter pain."
April 1, 2014
Joe McGinniss, scourge of politicos and chronicler of crime, dies at 71
Associated Press | Los Angeles Times Stories about author-journalist Joe McGinniss are re-emerging in the…
March 11, 2014
Ohio newspaper thief makes daring escape on bicycle
Dayton Police might want to take a page from the Dallas Morning News' thief-squashing notebook.
February 25, 2014
For 7 years, L.A. Times’ Homicide Report has wrested stories from grim data
The site has been redesigned and relaunched.
February 20, 2014
Hyperbolic to sensitive, how news outlets treated dramatic car crash video
The 55-second cell-phone video of an SUV going the wrong way on the Interstate, smashing…
February 14, 2014
College papers dropping arrestee names from crime blotters
Truth-telling and minimizing harm clash in student, professional newsrooms.
January 9, 2014
Learning from prize-winning journalism: how to cover a breaking news story
Lessons from The Denver Post's Aurora shootings coverage.
January 8, 2014
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