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Articles tagged mugshots (6)

Maggie Jones Patterson and Romayne Smith FullertonJuly 29, 2021

Tell-all crime reporting is a peculiarly American practice. Now U.S. news outlets are rethinking it

U.S. newsrooms are increasingly embracing a bit of the empathy toward wrongdoers shown by reporters in some European countries.

Joshua BentonJanuary 25, 2021

Is unpublishing old crime stories Orwellian or empathetic? The Boston Globe is offering past story subjects a “fresh start”

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.

Laura Hazard OwenOctober 18, 2018

Fewer mugshots, less naming and shaming: How editors in Cleveland are trying to build a more compassionate newsroom

“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?”

Some digging by The New York Times strikes a blow against those skeezy mugshot sites

Linda KinstlerJuly 19, 2013

When openness backfires: Is there room for more gray area in how court records are made public?

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.

Jillian StonecipherFebruary 25, 2013

A proposed Florida law targets mugshot sites, but hits journalists’ First Amendment rights

“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.”