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California Police Department To Place Lego Heads Over Suspects' Faces After State Mug Shot Prohibition
Starting this year, California lawmakers have largely prohibited police departments from posting mug shots of nonviolent suspects or of...
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Mar 20, 20242 min read
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TV Reporter Herridge Held In Contempt For Not Revealing Source
A federal judge held investigative reporter Catherine Herridge in civil contempt for refusing to divulge her source for a series of Fox...
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Mar 4, 20242 min read
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Growing Sinclair TV Chain Features Crime, Drug Coverage
Every year, local television news stations owned by Sinclair Broadcasting survey viewers to help guide the year’s coverage. A key...
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Feb 19, 20242 min read
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Polk Awards Given For Criminal Justice Reporting
ProPublica won three George Polk Awards in journalism on Monday, including for its coverage of Supreme Court justices’ ethics, Now in...
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Feb 19, 20241 min read
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Kansas Reporter Sues Officials, City Over Raid On Newspaper
A reporter for a weekly Kansas newspaper that police raided last year filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against local officials, saying the...
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Feb 13, 20241 min read
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Commentary: Noticeable Lack of Journalist Reporting On The Police Beat
Across the country, the relationship between police and reporters has broken down. While there are no hard numbers, there is a broad...
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Feb 7, 20242 min read
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How The Garrison Project Promotes Criminal Justice Reporting
The Garrison Project has produced 48 stories about criminal justice issues in a bit more than two years. “Building an audience to a...
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Feb 1, 20242 min read
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'Dateline NBC' Dominates Podcast Market With True Crime Stories
In 2019, veteran TV newscaster Keith Morrison, on a "Dateline NBC" podcast, told the disturbing tale of Pamela Hupp, a Midwestern...
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Jan 28, 20242 min read
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Colo. Man Steals 200 Papers With Report On Sex Case At Chief's Home
A Ridgway, Colo., man was cited on suspicion of petty theft in connection with the theft of more than 200 printed copies of this week’s...
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Jan 22, 20241 min read
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Gun Violence Center Urges News Media To 'Humanize' Coverage
News media coverage of gun violence may inadvertently perpetuate "stereotypical narratives" about the people and communities most...
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Jan 11, 20242 min read
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Opinion: True Crime Glorifies Victim's Pain As Public Entertainment
While some might argue that the true crime genre honors victims and those who solved or sought to solve the cases, survivors whose...
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Jan 9, 20242 min read
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Georgia Judge Rules Against Media In Public Records Case
A Fulton County judge has ruled against a media company that sued the Georgia city of Sandy Springs for delivering what it argued were...
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Dec 27, 20232 min read
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NYC Mayor Adams Plans To Move Press Out Of Police HQ To Trailer
The New York Police Department headquarters in Manhattan has long allowed reporters to work in the building, also known as “the shack.”...
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Dec 26, 20232 min read
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'Culture of Fear' At Dallas Paper After Reporter-Prosecutor Dispute
Miles Moffeit of the Dallas Morning News had asked John Creuzot, the top prosecutor for Dallas County, whether his office wanted more...
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Dec 22, 20232 min read
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Washington D.C. Pays Post $70k In Attorneys Fees For Police Records Dispute
Washington D.C. was forced to pay over $70 thousand to the Washington Post for attorneys fees related to a public records dispute,...
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Dec 14, 20231 min read
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Critics Say Media Focus On Street Crime, Downplay Many Violations
The U.S. news media’s coverage disproportionately focuses on serious crimes at the expense of reporting on other significant issues,...
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Dec 1, 20232 min read
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What Were The Decisions Behind The Post's Mass Shooting Article?
On Thursday, the Washington Post published an article called “Terror on Repeat,” that displayed mass shootings in a way no other...
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Nov 17, 20231 min read
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Chinese Scientist Wants Ex-Fox Reporter Held in Contempt of Court
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., is weighing whether to hold in contempt a veteran journalist who has refused to identify her sources...
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Nov 14, 20232 min read
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Alabama Reporter, Publisher Arrested Over Grand Jury Article
Police arrested a southwestern Alabama publisher and reporter when they published an article containing what officials say was...
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Nov 2, 20231 min read
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Court Says Texas Drone Restriction Does Not Violate First Amendment
In a loss for Texas journalists, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that a state law restricting use of...
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Oct 24, 20232 min read
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