'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 21, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Aug 17, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Aug 11, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jul 24, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jul 18, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jun 27, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
Jun 22, 20233 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
May 23, 20232 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
May 19, 20231 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
May 15, 20233 min read
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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Crime and Justice News
May 12, 20232 min read
Does Media Coverage Of Mass Shootings Lead To More Violence?
News coverage of high-profile mass shootings on cable news has adopted near clockwork patterns: first comes shock and the scramble for...
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Crime and Justice News
May 11, 20232 min read
Judge Clears AZ Reporter Charged With Harassing State Senator
A judge dismissed Arizona state Sen. Wendy Rogers’ restraining order against a reporter saying that the investigative journalist’s...
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Crime and Justice News
May 9, 20231 min read
Books On George Floyd, J. Edgar Hoover Win Pulitzer Prizes
Two books on criminal justice subjects won Pulitzer Prizes awarded by Columbia University. In "His Name is George Floyd: One Man's Life...
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Crime and Justice News
Apr 13, 20232 min read
Media Trend: Emotional TV Coverage Of Mass Shootings
Shortly after a gunman stormed a Louisville bank on Monday, Hayley Minogue, the co-anchor of the WHAS 11 morning news show “Good Morning...
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By Ted Gest
Apr 6, 20236 min read
News Media And Crime: More Context Is Needed
The nation's news media should do a better job putting crime rate changes in context and asking political candidates for their specific...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 21, 20232 min read
Arrests of U.S. Journalists Down, But Remain a Threat
Few American journalists are put on trial for doing their jobs, but that doesn't mean arrests and other threats barely exist. In fact,...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 9, 20231 min read
Reporter Arrested For Trespassing At Ohio Gov's News Conference
A broadcast reporter was pushed to the ground, handcuffed and arrested for trespassing Wednesday while covering a news conference on the...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 6, 20232 min read
A Call For More Responsible Storytelling on Criminal Justice
The authenticity of the narrative around criminal justice must be strengthened in order to improve the system itself, Danielo Forkkio of...
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Crime and Justice News
Feb 3, 20232 min read
Washington Post Helped Finish Slain NV Reporter's Ponzi Scheme Story
When investigative reporter Jeff German was killed in September, his colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal were determined that his...
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