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.
Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith FullertonJuly 29, 2021
Should the worst moment of your life also be your top Google search result? Your “permanent record” is sometimes more about old news stories than court records, and newspapers are increasingly rethinking their responsibilities.
“I didn’t see how we could justify standing on tradition when it was causing that kind of suffering…It really comes down to: How long does somebody have to pay for a mistake?”
Two academics from NYU worry that the old binary system — a court document is either public or it’s not — doesn’t mesh well with a searchable online context, and that protecting access might mean rethinking it.
“Even staunch free speech advocates recognize that these mugshot companies are, at the very least, distasteful. But, of course, the First Amendment does not allow the government to regulate content simply because it is distasteful.”
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Stonecipher, Jillian. "A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights." Nieman Journalism Lab. Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard, 25 Feb. 2013. Web. 19 Nov. 2024.
APA
Stonecipher, J. (2013, Feb. 25). A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights. Nieman Journalism Lab. Retrieved November 19, 2024, from https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/a-proposed-florida-law-targets-mugshot-sites-but-hits-journalists-first-amendment-rights/
Chicago
Stonecipher, Jillian. "A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights." Nieman Journalism Lab. Last modified February 25, 2013. Accessed November 19, 2024. https://www.niemanlab.org/2013/02/a-proposed-florida-law-targets-mugshot-sites-but-hits-journalists-first-amendment-rights/.
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