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Articles tagged crime (9)

This election cycle showed that our evaluations of external reality are increasingly partisan. Can the media bridge the gap?
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.
Testify’s groundbreaking investigations in Cleveland show the power of computational methods in courthouse reporting. Why, then, are its stories so hard to replicate?
“[Families] know it’s way quicker to get a story out through me than through Univision and Telemundo.”
“You can’t even get an officer’s badge number at 25 feet. So there’s no way to hold anyone accountable.”
In the case of break-and-enter stories, “everybody recognized that a poor execution of the idea would be a problem.”
One researcher’s work has found that, over the past decade, the news media has reduced the number of times the name of a mass shooter is reported.