police

Opinion | Better relationships with cops won’t help journalists cover crime

Police coverage is broken. Old ideas aren’t the answer. Newsrooms that take a change-management approach see reforms that stick

February 6, 2024

Local newsrooms want to stop sensationalizing crime, but it’s hard

Here are the common barriers they face and how journalists surmount them.

April 11, 2023

Opinion | Take special care with coverage of police violence and protests

Journalists must make careful decisions about how to accurately and respectfully document events while also mitigating harm.

January 30, 2023

Essential self-care for journalists covering the death of Tyre Nichols

We conducted more than 30 workshops last year about managing journalism stress and trauma. Here is some advice for what is ahead.

January 27, 2023

How police treatment of journalists at protests has shifted from cohabitation to animosity

Journalists have moved from observers to targets in recent years, opening a dark, new chapter for press freedom in the United States.

June 14, 2022

Access to police body camera videos: The Wild West of open records requests

This is another in a series of articles by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of…

April 15, 2015

Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press

Was Ferguson a ‘news desert’ until two weeks ago?

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon speaks during a news conference in Ferguson, Mo. Violent protests in…

August 22, 2014

Local TV journalists say police encounters are mixed in Ferguson

Local television journalists from St. Louis covering the protests in Ferguson, Missouri tell Poynter.org there…

August 14, 2014

Suit claims Baltimore police beat up woman who videotaped them

Courthouse News Service | Photography Is Not a Crime | Reason Makia Smith says a…

May 15, 2013

Journalists arrested at Occupy anniversary protests

Josh Stearns rounds up reports of journalists getting arrested at Monday's anniversary protests for Occupy…

September 18, 2012