A crime reporting case study of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May-November 2012.
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Police-media relations may have bottomed out following a series a controversial police-involved deaths beginning last August, when Michael Brown was killed by Officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Mo. Journalists covering the resulting unrest were harassed, bullied and arrested by police.
Data reporting has transformed criminal justice journalism. It’s also contributed to the emergence of an information-sharing ethos on a beat usually seen as hyper-competitive.
The evolution of breaking news coverage stood out like an appositional thumb during the turmoil in Ferguson, Mo.