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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 digital pseudonym, raises ethical questions. Is this a form of undercover journalism, and how can journalists protect themselves while reporting? a new study asks. Liv … Continued

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 on CSE, comparing two time periods: 1997-1999 and 2014-2015. The articles came from three newspapers, The Times, Daily Mail and Mirror. Articles in the first … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, newspapers, representation
Published: 22 Nov 2019

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 of photographs in the coverage will, in turn, affect the audience’s impressions and recall of the crime, potentially distorting public understanding of crime, the authors … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, newspapers, representation, visuality
Published: 7 Oct 2019

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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 2015 analysing trends in immigration news and comparing these to real-world events and developments. The dictionary-based automated content analysis included over 4 million news articles … Continued

Tags: Belgium, crime journalism, economic journalism, netherlands, political journalism, representation
Published: 22 Mar 2018

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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 televising trials in order to enhance the transparency of the judicial system. Iñaki Garcia-Blanco and Lucy Bennett of Cardiff University, studied how this issue was … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, journalistic norms, United Kingdom
Published: 1 Mar 2018

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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, published after three separate mass shootings. The mass shootings selected for the sample were the Virginia Tech shooting (2007), Sandy Hook elementary school shooting (2012) … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, crisis journalism, representation, United States
Published: 20 Feb 2018

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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 2 278 news articles published by four Spanish newspapers in 2012 and 2013. The sample consists of articles from the papers Abc, El País, El … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, economic journalism, journalistic roles, Spain
Published: 19 Feb 2018

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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 of investigative journalists in revealing large-scale corruption related to the expansion of Nordic telecom companies in Uzbekistan. The research is based on qualitative interviews with … Continued

Tags: crime journalism
Published: 25 Jan 2018

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, and features chapters from five other writers. Collaborative journalism is not entirely new: newsrooms teamed up already in late 1800’s in order to pool resources … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, economic journalism, journalistic profession, political journalism
Published: 24 Jan 2018

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 University. The authors compare the discourse structure of crime reporting articles published in Iranian and Dutch newspapers. 100 crime-reporting news texts were collected and the structure … Continued

Tags: crime journalism, journalistic profession
Published: 22 Nov 2017