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Holloway Coverage Continues 'Missing White Women' Syndrome
In the summer of 2005, major news networks were running a seemingly endless barrage of stories about Natalee Holloway the 18-year-old,...
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Oct 20, 20232 min read
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DOJ, Media, PERF Discuss Guidelines For Coverage Of Demonstrations
The demonstrations and rioting in summer 2020 were unlike anything the U.S. had seen recently. While most stayed peaceful, many turned...
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Oct 9, 20233 min read
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How News Media Can Improve Coverage Of Gun Violence
Journalists can cover the scourge of gun violence in the U.S. better by focusing more on its causes and remedies rather than...
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Oct 6, 20232 min read
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Reporting On No-Knock Warrants, Child Abuse Wins Journalism Prizes
The John Jay College for Criminal Justice announced its annual awards for best print and online reporting by news organizations on...
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Oct 5, 20232 min read
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NY Times Plans Series On Lessons Learned About Violence Prevention
In 1996, the bipartisan Council on Crime in America released a dire report. the New York Times headlined it, "Experts on Crime Warn of a...
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Sep 26, 20232 min read
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Rolling Stone Founder Still Defends Inaccurate Virginia Rape Article
Jann Wenner—founder of the music and pop culture magazine Rolling Stone—is still defending an infamously inaccurate article that appeared...
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Sep 19, 20232 min read
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Will Trump Georgia Case Be 'Circus Trial' Rivaling OJ, Arias, Anthony?
The first of the televised sessions in former President Trump’s conspiracy trial in Georgia aired last week and it was dull: Two of the...
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Sep 12, 20232 min read
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Fox: Media Wrongly Depicted FL Shooter As 'Hero (for) Hatemongers'
Before being replaced on newspaper front pages by Hurricane Idalia, the fatal shooting of three Black residents of Jacksonville, Fla., by...
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Sep 8, 20232 min read
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Trump GA Hearings, Trial Will Be Televised and Live-Streamed
Former President Donald Trump's trial in Fulton County, Ga., is to be televised and live-streamed, the presiding judge said on Thursday....
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Sep 1, 20232 min read
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'Sensationalistic' Mass Shooter Coverage Cited By GOP Lawmakers
Two Republicans have proposed a resolution in Congress that calls on the news media to change its reporting practices around mass...
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Aug 23, 20232 min read
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Lawyer Says KS Reporter 'Had Every Right' In Controversial Police Raid
The police chief who oversaw the sharply criticized raid of a Kansas local news outlet said a reporter was "either impersonating the...
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Aug 21, 20232 min read
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KS Prosecutor Withdraws Search Warrant For County Newspaper
After nearly a week of criticism, the Kansas prosecutor behind a controversial police raid on a newspaper office has agreed to withdraw...
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Aug 17, 20232 min read
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Report Accuses News Media Of Exaggerating Police Brutality
There has been a dramatic increase in media and public attention to police brutality and racial bias. By some measures, the volume of...
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Aug 11, 20232 min read
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Judge Strikes Down AZ Law on Recording Officers
An Arizona law that would have made it illegal to film police officers within 8 feet of law enforcement activity if the officer asked a...
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Jul 24, 20232 min read
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NJ Law Backfires on Journalists and Accountability: Commentary
A New Jersey law intended to keep judges, prosecutors and law enforcement officers safe by allowing them to prevent the public from...
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Jul 18, 20232 min read
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Trump Cases, Supreme Court Bring 'Golden Age of TV Legal Analysts'
As a CNN legal analyst, former federal prosecutor Elliot Williams has weighed in on such topics as immigration policy, rules of evidence...
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Jun 27, 20232 min read
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NY Prison Journalism Restrictions Were No Anomaly
How often do prison systems place restrictions on the journalism produced by inmates? The Prison Policy Institute decided to compile a...
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Jun 22, 20233 min read
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SCOTUS Press Corps Stuck In Case-Digest Mode, Ignoring Politics
U.S. Supreme Court justices' behavior has put the court's legitimacy on trial, but the chief intermediary between the court and the...
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May 23, 20232 min read
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Atlanta Journalist Files Federal Lawsuit Over Police Retaliation
A journalist who was detained and pressured by police to delete video at Atlanta’s public safety training center site has filed a federal...
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May 19, 20231 min read
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When Should Media Use Gruesome Images Of Crime Scenes?
The shooter who killed eight people outside an Allen, Tex., mall on May 6 was captured on a dash-cam video as he stood in the middle of a...
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May 15, 20233 min read
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