Breaking-news journalism, linked inextricably to criminal justice beats, is changing—driven by unrelenting micro-deadlines and financial pressures that have whittled staffs and forced editors and producers to rethink their newsroom structures and news-gathering processes.
Browsing: Case Studies and Year-End Reports
We’re only two months into 2011, and there’s no shortage of crime news —-from the shooting of a congresswoman in Tucson that shocked the nation to a supposedly “polite” armed robber in Seattle who also got wide notice. Yet few stories on individual crimes, large and small, enlighten Americans much on how to reduce crime generally or to protect themselves specifically.
A team of five reporters for the Philadelphia Inquirer has been documenting serious problems in Philadelphia’s court system for more than two years for a groundbreaking series which found that the city had the highest violent crime rate among America’s 10 largest cities and among the lowest conviction rates for big cities.
investigative reporters Doug Pardue and Glenn Smith of The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina looked at why their state seemed to have so many cases of violent crimes being committed by people who had been paroled or placed on probation.
Crime Reporting Case Study: Mistaken Identities A project of the Center on Media, Crime & Justice and Criminal…