Media
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.
Media
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.
Media
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.
Media
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.
media case study
Probation and Parole South Carolina:Case Study
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investigative reporters Doug Pardue and Glenn Smith of The Post and Courier in Charleston, South Carolina looked at why their state seemed to have so many cases of violent crimes being committed by people who had been paroled or placed on probation.
Capital Punishment
Mistaken Identities, DNA Exonerations: A Case Study
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Crime Reporting Case Study: Mistaken Identities A project of the Center on Media, Crime & Justice and Criminal Justice Journalists Debora Halpern Wenger University of Mississippi Kendra Gentry John Jay College of Criminal Justice Kristine Trever Virginia Commonwealth University Presented at the 4th Annual Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America February 2-3, 2009 “Eyewitness testimony is the crack cocaine of the criminal justice system.” -Steve McGonigle and Jennifer Emily “Mistaken Identities” – The Dallas Morning News […]