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’
There's really only one media story this morning.
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
“Help us understand what compels someone to be so hateful and mysogonistic.”
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
Remembers "an endless, relentless, sheer and utter pain."
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 Police might want to take a page from the Dallas Morning News' thief-squashing notebook.
For 7 years, L.A. Times’ Homicide Report has wrested stories from grim data
The site has been redesigned and relaunched.
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…
College papers dropping arrestee names from crime blotters
Truth-telling and minimizing harm clash in student, professional newsrooms.
