Newsrooms rethink a crime reporting staple: the mugshot

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The Marshall Project / Keri Blakinger / Feb 11

“Some news organizations—including The Marshall Project—avoid mugshots altogether. The New Haven Independent, a nonprofit news site in Connecticut, doesn’t typically use images or even names of people who’ve been arrested. In 2018, the Biloxi Sun Herald took down its daily mugshot galleries and stopped reporting on many low-level arrests, worried that the overabundance of crime coverage created a false impression of southern Mississippi.”

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Tags: crime journalism, crime reporting, crime reporting ethics, Keri Blakinger, mugshot, The Marshall Project