How True Crime Entertainment May Have Real-Life Impact
In 1989, Americans were riveted by the shotgun murders of Jose and Kitty Menendez in their Beverly Hills mansion by their own children....
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 282 min read
Can True Crime Media Coverage Influence Case Outcomes?
The case of the Menendez brothers shows how popular true crime content that reinvestigates elements of real criminal cases in...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 232 min read
Judicial Panel Recommends Keeping Ban On Broadcasting Federal Criminal Proceedings
A U.S. judicial panel tasked with re-examining whether to keep in place the ban against TV or audio broadcasts of federal criminal...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 192 min read
NY Times, ProPublica Say Grisham Book Needs Better Attribution
Author John Grisham has written a nonfiction collection about wrongful convictions, but the New York Times and ProPublica say Grisham...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 171 min read
Ex-Las Vegas Official Gets 28-Year Term For Killing Reporter
A former Las Vegas official was sentenced to serve at least 28 years in prison for killing an investigative journalist who wrote...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 172 min read
Texas Citizen Journalist Wins New Chance To Challenge Conviction
The Supreme Court told a federal appeals court to take a new look at whether a citizen journalist in Texas can sue officials over her...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 71 min read
DOJ, PERF Issue Best Practices On Police-Press Dealings At Protests
The U.S. Department of Justice and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) released a first-of-its kind set of best practices for...
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Crime and Justice News
Oct 72 min read
David Burnham Dies; 'Serpico' Reporter, Head Of Data Group TRAC
David Burnham, a former investigative reporter for The New York Times whose exposé of corruption in the New York Police Department in...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 262 min read
Conservative Media Bury Or Ignore FBI Release On Crime Report Fall
This week's release of FBI data showing that crime reports in the U.S. dropped last year came just weeks before a high-stakes...
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Crime and Justice News
Sep 22 min read
Famed AP Court Reporter Linda Deutsch Dies At 80
Linda Deutsch, who for nearly 50 years covered some of the nation’s most significant criminal and civil trials — Charles Manson, O.J....
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 292 min read
Former Official Convicted of Murder in Stabbing of Las Vegas Reporter
A former Nevada county official was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing Las Vegas investigative reporter Jeff German nearly...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 122 min read
Jury Selection Begins For Former Las Vegas Politican Accused Of Murdering Reporter
The trial of a Las Vegas-area politician accused of killing an investigative reporter who wrote articles critical of him will take center...
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Crime and Justice News
Aug 22 min read
How Wall Street Journal Worked To Free Its Arrested Reporter
For several months, a counter on top of a Wall Street Journal website tracked the days, hours and minutes that Evan Gershkovich had spent...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 292 min read
MN Judge Blocks Reporting On Memo In High-Profile Murder Case
A judge in St. Paul, Minnesota, has ordered journalists not to report on a sentencing memo that was filed in a high-profile murder case...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 232 min read
L.A. County Sheriff Wanted To Prosecute Reporter Over Leaks
For at least three years, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department secretly investigated — and ultimately urged the state attorney...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 112 min read
Ruben Rosario Dies At 70; Longtime Criminal Justice Journalist
Former St. Paul Pioneer Press columnist Rubén Rosario, a tireless advocate for the powerless, grew up in the Bronx and earned his...
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Crime and Justice News
Jul 61 min read
Kansas Reporter Settles Part Of Lawsuit Over Raid For $235K
A former reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper will accept $235,000 to settle part of her federal lawsuit over a police raid on the...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 202 min read
Freelancer Wins Settlement Against LAPD After Gathering Photos of Officers
For 29-year-old freelance journalist Ben Camacho, it's two legal victories in two days. On Monday, the city of Los Angeles agreed to drop...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 182 min read
L.A. To Pay $300K For Journalist Who Published Officer Photos
Los Angeles will pay $300,000 to cover the legal fees of a local journalist and a technology watchdog group sued by the city for...
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Crime and Justice News
Jun 172 min read
Will News Media, Politicians Stop Using The Label 'Felon'?
On May 29, the Associated Press released the 57th edition of its stylebook, providing language guidance to newsrooms. Among its new...
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