ARTICLE: How to report on the dark net?
Writing stories on the dark net, the hidden part of the internet outside the reach of public search engines, is an unusual practice. For example, using a nick, i.e. a … Continued
Tag: crime journalism
ARTICLE: News about child sexual exploitation have gotten worse
British newspapers’ coverage of child sexual exploitation (CSE) was better in late 1990’s than in mid-2010’s, Katie Elliott, of London Metropolitan University writes. She analysed the framing of 390 articles … Continued
ARTICLE: Sympathetic victims predict the use of photographs in crime news
If a homicide involves a “sympathetic victim”, the event is likely to be covered with photographs, noticed Walter Works and Jennifer S. Wong, both of Simon Fraser University. The inclusion … Continued
ARTICLE: The connection between immigration news and real-world developments
How do news about immigration relate to real-life developments? University of Amsterdam researchers Laura Jacobs, Alyt Damstra, Mark Boukes and Knut De Swert did a longitudinal study from 1999 to … Continued
ARTICLE: The debate on filming trials in British newspapers
The criminal justice system in England and Wales has faced a lot of criticism and its reputation has been low since the 1990s. The government has lifted the ban on … Continued
ARTICLE: US newspapers focus on mass shooters, not their victims
American newspapers’ front pages show more pictures of mass shooters than their victims, Nicole Smith Dahmen, of University of Oregon, writes. Dahmen studied the photographs on 3 821 front pages, … Continued
ARTICLE: Spanish press prefers a “loyal facilitator” role in covering business
Spanish newspapers emphasize different journalistic roles when dealing with different topics, María Luisa Humanes, of University Rey Juan Carlos, and Sergio Roses, of University of Málaga, write. The authors analysed … Continued
ARTICLE: Extensive cooperation between journalists helped to reveal the Uzbekistan telecom corruption case
Investigative journalists have a played an important role in exposing corruption around the world. Ester Pollack of Stockholm University and Sigurd Allern of the University of Oslo, studied the work … Continued
BOOK: Modern world needs collaborative journalism, but it is not a panacea
The Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism has published a new open access book on collaboration in investigative journalism. The book is edited by Richard Sambrook, of Oxford University, … Continued
ARTICLE: What is the dominant discourse structure in Iranian and Dutch crime news texts?
News texts represent and share the most newsworthy events through familiar and conventionalized ways of communication in a specific society, write Afrooz Rafiee, Wilbert Spooren and José Sanders, all of Radboud … Continued