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Urban violence, police shootings, the opioid epidemic, and a tense political campaign dominated criminal justice coverage during 2016. How did the coverage measure up? In our annual press review, Washington Bureau chief Ted Gest assesses the year in coverage with a panel of media experts and observers.
The volume and depth of news coverage about criminal justice in the United States increased in 2015. But there’s less hard-hitting coverage in many cities on basic topics than there used to be.
It didn’t take long for the names “Ferguson,” “Michael Brown,” and “Darren Wilson” to be entwined in the biggest criminal justice news story of 2014. The killing of the unarmed, 18-year-old Brown by Wilson in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson produced national reverberations for policing, race and other aspects of the criminal justice in the United States that would last well beyond 2014. Full report available here:
The Boston Marathon bombing, the politics of guns and the leaks about NSA surveillance dominated much of the crime news coverage in 2013. But how well did the media cover these stories?
Criminal Justice Journalists looks at how the press covered the biggest crime and justice stories of 2012.
Criminal Justice Journalists looks at how the press covered the biggest crime and justice stories of 2011.
The sputtering economy affected both criminal justice and news coverage of it in 2010. Many agencies from police departments to prisons were forced to cut back.
Fifteen years after reported crime in the United States reached a modern day peak, many news reporters, along with their sources, are groping to understand the decline. With a few notable exceptions, media coverage of the trends in 2009 primarily was a story of crime dropping in many big cities.
A crime reporting case study of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May-November 2012.
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.