media case study
Crime Drop? How Data-Driven Reporting Fueled an Investigation of the Milwaukee Police Department’s Flawed Data
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A crime reporting case study of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, May-November 2012.
Media
Cops and The Media: A Chilly Peace
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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.
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Crime and Justice: Does the Press Get it Right?
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How well is the media covering today’s complex criminal justice issues? Four leading commentators weigh in.
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The Rise of the Crime Beat ‘News Nerds’
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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.
Mediacorner
Crime Reporting in America
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The Crime Report’s Washington Bureau Chief Ted Gest and Deb Wenger, associate professor at the Meek School of Journalism and New Media at the University of Mississippi, appeared on DC Public Safety Radio to discuss their content analysis of crime coverage in six U.S. newspapers.
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Crime News: Does Quantity Matter?
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Although newspapers have been struggling to maintain reporting muscle, crime and criminal justice content continues to be a staple of local coverage, according to a study commissioned by the Center on Media, Crime and Justice (CMCJ) at John Jay College.
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The Media and Ferguson: A Mixed Review
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The evolution of breaking news coverage stood out like an appositional thumb during the turmoil in Ferguson, Mo.
Case-studies
Feeding the Beast
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Breaking-news journalism, linked inextricably to criminal justice beats, is changing—driven by unrelenting micro-deadlines and financial pressures that have whittled staffs and forced editors and producers to rethink their newsroom structures and news-gathering processes.
Case Studies and Year-End Reports
Enterprise Crime Reporting–A Vanishing Practice?
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We’re only two months into 2011, and there’s no shortage of crime news —-from the shooting of a congresswoman in Tucson that shocked the nation to a supposedly “polite” armed robber in Seattle who also got wide notice. Yet few stories on individual crimes, large and small, enlighten Americans much on how to reduce crime generally or to protect themselves specifically.
Case-studies
Crime Reporting Case Study: The Philadelphia Inquirer, “Justice: Delayed, Dismissed, Denied.”
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A team of five reporters for the Philadelphia Inquirer has been documenting serious problems in Philadelphia’s court system for more than two years for a groundbreaking series which found that the city had the highest violent crime rate among America’s 10 largest cities and among the lowest conviction rates for big cities.