Opinion | AP Stylebook’s new chapter on crime is a glimpse into the future A decade from now, American newsrooms will have replaced cheap stories with data-rich narratives that educate communities and hold cops accountable June 4, 2024 Kelly McBride
AP Stylebook updates entries on criminal justice, prefixes, and flips to Merriam-Webster The new criminal justice chapter includes more than 50 entries covering specific terms, some new, some revised. May 31, 2024 Matthew Crowley
Shut Out: Strategies for good journalism when sources dismiss the press Complete report from Poynter's ethics symposium on growing trend of sources refusing to engage with journalists May 3, 2024 Fernanda Camarena
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 Kelly McBride
Newsrooms working to transform their crime coverage are seeing the payoffs In Poynter’s Transforming Crime sessions, journalists learn how to change entrenched reporting systems that often do more harm than good January 22, 2024 Cheryl Thompson-Morton
The Poynter Institute and The Just Trust announce 2024 partnership to transform crime reporting New grant from The Just Trust continues successful program that transforms news organizations’ crime reporting to focus on public safety December 13, 2023 Jennifer Orsi
Poynter announces the 27 newsrooms accepted into Transforming Crime Reporting Into Public Safety Journalism These newsrooms will spend seven months learning to create more accurate and comprehensive community narratives about public safety May 15, 2023 Barbara Allen
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 Kelly McBride
Newsrooms struggle over how to cover crime What we learned by helping 44 newsrooms reform their work March 28, 2023 Barbara Allen
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 Joy Mayer
The FBI is about to release incomplete and inadequate crime statistics Here’s a guide for journalists who want to use them and members of the public who want to understand them. October 5, 2022 Kelly McBride
Formerly incarcerated people are ‘not looking for sympathy, but humanity’ in stories about their experiences How a Poynter workshop influenced the second season of “Sick,” a podcast about what goes wrong in the places meant to keep us healthy April 19, 2022 Mel Grau
Gannett launches a network-wide push to rework its crime coverage Fewer mugshots, additional context and moving beyond police narratives are just some of the changes its newsrooms are making August 12, 2021 Angela Fu
Opinion | It’s time for journalism to break the cycle of crime reporting The public good — rather than the public’s interest — should be a prevailing factor. June 22, 2021 Doris Truong
The words journalists use often reduce humans to the crimes they commit. But that’s changing. Person-first language recognizes that dehumanizing descriptions can influence public perceptions and self-conception. December 15, 2020 Morgan Godvin
