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Amid the downturn in audio, some executives think the public radio model — with a dash of true crime — might provide a way forward.
“Sometimes as journalists, we move around with an attitude that the community is just not going to [understand] us….I think that’s a huge obstacle to being able to do this better.”
“[Families] know it’s way quicker to get a story out through me than through Univision and Telemundo.”
“We need to better understand what people mean when they say ‘safety.’”
Testify’s groundbreaking investigations in Cleveland show the power of computational methods in courthouse reporting. Why, then, are its stories so hard to replicate?
In our package: Digital news outlets reimagine the crime beat; TikTok creators balance ethics and money; public radio stations see more true crime in their future; AI might reshape court reporting.