Police and crime reporting
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…
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…
Crime coverage in Chicago may be too good
Chicago is widely known as “Chiraq” or the “murder capital” even though its murder rate…
Cop to reporter: ‘You’re going to be in my jail cell tonight’
Good morning. Here are 10 media stories. Maybe it's not really 10. Let's not dwell…
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…
The right way to publish a killer’s deranged manifesto
There’s a democratic value to publishing and referencing Elliot Rodger’s manifesto. The 22-year-old mass murderer…
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…
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…
Reporter undergoes deployment of Taser technology
The Herald-Journal Daniel Gross of the (Spartanburg, S.C.) Herald-Journal took a citizen's police academy course…
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…
Ohio newspaper thief makes daring escape on bicycle
Dayton Daily News On Sunday at 6 a.m., a man stole an "entire stack of…
