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Scholars from the University of Chicago and Stanford analyzed more than 2,200 news articles about murders in Chicago in 2016 and confirmed complaints that racial justice activists have long made.
A fake FBI raid staged by a right-wing activist and conspiracist turned into an embarrassment for the Washington Post, which briefly reported the faux event as if it were the real deal.
While covering Portland’s 100 days of protests over police brutality, one reporter says he has been pushed to the ground by police, hit in the lip with a baton and tear gassed.
Even as academics and legislators debate how to cure the U.S. epidemic of firearms shootings and homicides, some journalists have turned their attention toward community-based and policing solutions that have had impressive success. You can find them in the latest story collection of the Solutions Journalism Network .
With policing reform hot in the news, the law enforcement and public safety advisory group 21CP Solutions is going Hollywood with an exclusive consulting deal with CBS Television Studios on police and legal dramas.
The University of Mississippi’s School of Journalism & New Media’s NewsLab has published a guide for criminal justice journalists. The guide says good crime reporting should include “following cases through sentencing and looking for trends in a community.”
Long before today’s “defund” debate aroused controversy, the media have been covering the nation’s most compelling experiments in police reform. Some of the best reporting has been archived in a collection recently compiled by the Solutions Journalism Network.
A 29-year-old freelance journalist became the second journalist killed in a week in the Mexican state of Michoacan, bringing the total number of media assassinations in the country to five this year. Mexico, considered one of the world’s deadliest places for media workers, has also experienced a spike in femicides since the outbreak of the novel coronavirus.
The Department of Homeland Security gave law enforcement agencies reports summarizing tweets by three journalists who had published leaked documents about DHS operations in Oregon. The agency’s former lawyer called the action “incredibly dumb.”
Journalists and legal observers have suffered shots to the back, neck and legs from impact munitions fired by federal officers outside the federal courthouse in the last month.