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Most opioid patients never get addicted and most people who do get addicted didn’t start their opioid addiction with a doctor’s prescription. The result of this skewed public conversation around opioids has been policies focused relentlessly on cutting prescriptions, says the Columbia Journalism Review.
The director of the Institute for Nonprofit News, a network of 170 nonprofit online media outlets, said reporters covering criminal justice and other local beats face an upsurge of harassment and intimidation. But “we’re not going to shut up,” Sue Cross said in an open letter posted Thursday in response to an appeal by the Boston Globe to news organizations around the country to publish editorials on the issue.
The Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service said it was “completely unnecessary” to detain reporter Edgar Mendez for two hours for taking photos of squad cars in a police parking lot. The police say he was trespassing.
Larry Dobson says he was doing his job when he made his way to the scene of a drowning on July 17. The local sheriff said the journalist was intruding. The two have been trading barbs over who was right and wrong.
The administration of the newly elected provincial premier has been changing the rules of media engagement. Things came to a head last week when a minister lobbed an accusation of “fake news.”
The Denver Post found that among thousands of court cases whose files the state had sealed for various reasons, five dozen were felonies in which defendants had been tried, convicted and sentenced, but no records are publicly available.
A federal judge ordered the Los Angeles Times to remove information from an article that described a plea agreement between prosecutors and a Glendale, Ca., police detective accused of working with the Mexican Mafia, a move the newspaper called highly unusual and unconstitutional.
In an apparent demotion, Ali Watkins, the New York Times federal law enforcement reporter whose email and phone records were secretly seized by the Trump administration, will be transferred out of the newspaper’s Washington, D.C., bureau and reassigned in New York City.
“When someone is desperate for fame or attention, committing a high-profile mass killing is one of the only guaranteed ways to get it,” criminologist Adam Lankford told a recent gathering of journalists. Responsible media, he argued, should guard against providing killers with a platform.
Investigation Discovery, launched 10 years ago, has monopolized the market on the true crime genre, becoming one of the most popular channels on cable TV. Over the last several years, ID has consistently been the most-watched cable network among women aged 25 to 54.