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Fox News Retracts Story on Murder of Political Aide
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The network said a story saying that a murdered Democratic National Committee staffer, Seth Rich, had shared DNC emails with WikiLeaks did not meet Fox’ editorial standards.
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Mexican Crime Reporter Cárdenas is Assassinated
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Javier Valdez Cárdenas was assassinated yesterday by an armed group that shot him while he was driving in his home state of Sinaloa. Three journalists were slain in Mexico in March.
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Award-Winning Crime Photographer Feels Guilty
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Jason Wambsgans of the Chicago Tribune won the Pulitzer Prize for photographing children shot in the city. Photographers “wonder why they keep showing people this violence and nothing changes,” says photojournalism scholar James Kelly.
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Reporter Arrested for Asking Price About Domestic Violence
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Reporter Dan Heyman is handcuffed and jailed for asking questions of Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price in a hallway of the West Virginia State Capitol. He is charged with “willful disruption of state government processes.”
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Sanford FL Chief Says False Report ‘Taints’ His Agency
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Police chief in Florida city where Trayvon Martin was killed says his department has suffered “profound” damage from an erroneous television report on another fatal shooting.
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Execution Scene in Arkansas Attracts International Media
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A dozen reporters, from France, Sweden, England and Canada, descend on Arkansas to witness the state’s attempt to execute eight death row inmates in 11 days.
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Graphic Footage Shows Maine’s ‘Last Days of Solitary’
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PBS tonight will air an “unflinching, often harrowing” look at how one state is reducing the use of solitary confinement.
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True Crime: Richard Price on Mayhem, Murder and Journalism
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In an excerpt from his foreword to “The New York Times Book of Crime,” by exclusive arrangement with The Crime Report, one of the country’s masters of crime fiction writes that the best crime reporting can uncover truths about ourselves that we would sometimes prefer to ignore.
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The Triumph of the Crime Reporter
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What’s the most important crime story of the last century? You can choose from a collection of the 100 best put together by The New York Times from its archives, in a celebration of the often-overlooked chroniclers of murder and mayhem: the men and women for whom crime is a daily beat. Kevin Flynn, the anthology’s editor, reveals the reasons for his choices in a conversation with The Crime Report.
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Rolling Stone Settles Suit Over Virginia Campus Rape Story
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A jury had awarded University of Virginia administrator Nicole Eramo $3 million in her defamation suit against the magazine over a story, since retracted, about sexual assaults on the campus.