Covering Canadian Crime

What Journalists Should Know and the Public Should Question
Herausgeber: Richardson, Chris; Smith Fullerton, Romayne

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Produktbeschreibung

Covering Canadian Crime offers a deep and detailed look at both the perennial issues in crime reporting and how changes in technology, business practices, and professional ethics are affecting today’s crime coverage.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 440
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 224mm x 150mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781442629189
• ISBN-10: 1442629185
• Artikelnr.: 44157176

Autorenporträt

Edited by Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton

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INTRODUCTION
Chris Richardson & Romayne Smith Fullerton
PART ONE: THE ROUTINES AND REALITIES OF CANADIAN CRIME REPORTING 
THE TRADITIONAL “PICKUP” OR “DEATH KNOCK” STORY: ITS ROLE, ITS VALUE(S),
AND THE IMPACT OF SOCIAL MEDIA
Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson
IS COVERAGE OF THE MAFIA TUFF ENOUGH? 
Cecil Rosner
THE INHERENT DRAMA OF COURTS: AN INTERVIEW WITH NATIONAL POST COLUMNIST
CHRISTIE BLATCHFORD
Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton
SOMETIMES THE LAW IS AN ASS: REFLECTIONS ON PUBLISHING THE RECORD OF A
JUVENILE
Kirk LaPointe
NOT NAMING NAMES? CRIME COVERAGE RITUALS IN CANADA, SWEDEN AND THE
NETHERLANDS
Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson
“I SLEEP REALLY WELL AT NIGHT”: THE GLOBE AND MAIL’S TIMOTHY APPLEBY ON
COVERING THIRTY YEARS OF GRIEF
Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton
A CASE OF PRAIRIE JUSTICE: THE MURDERER, THE JURY, AND THE SPIRIT OF
DURKHEIM
James S. McLean
PART TWO: COURT ACCESS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
COURTHOUSE CULTURE
Linden MacIntyre
THE VIRTUAL COURTROOM: JOURNALISTIC PRACTICE, SOCIAL MEDIA, AND INFORMATION
FLOW IN CANADA’S COURTS
Susan Harada and Mary McGuire
“DID SHE CONSENT TO THIS SEX ACT WITH THIS ACCUSED?” THE NEWS MEDIA, SEXUAL
ASSAULT MYTHS AND THE COMPLAINANT’S PRIVATE RECORDS IN COURT TESTIMONY
Barbara M. Freeman
FIGHTING ON THE SIDE OF ANGELS: THE TORONTO STAR’S NEWSROOM LAWYER BERT
BRUSER ON THE CHANGING CHALLENGES OF THE LAW IN CANADA
Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton
THE BANDIDOS MURDER TRIAL: ALL A-TWITTER ABOUT A CANADIAN FIRST
Kate Dubinski
AIDING AND ABETTING: HOW POLICE MEDIA INFORMATION UNITS SHAPE LOCAL NEWS
COVERAGE
April Lindgren
“SCOOP WAS KING”: MEDIA COMPETITION, CRIME NEWS AND MASCULINITY
Mary Lynn Young
PART THREE: CONSTRUCTING CRIMINALS AND CRIME NEWS
THE PEOPLE’S SERVANT: VANCOUVER SUN CRIME REPORTER KIM BOLAN’S BREAKTHROUGH
BLOGGING
Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton
“EVERYONE KEPT GANGING UP ON HARPER”: POLITICAL “GANGS” AND THE LANGUAGE OF
CRIMINAL JUSTICE IN CANADIAN JOURNALISM
Chris Richardson
GUNS, GANGS AND THE UNDERCLASS REVISITED: AN ANALYSIS OF COURTROOM COVERAGE
FROM THE JORDAN MANNERS TRIALS
William O’Grady and Patrick Parnaby (with Sabah Fatima)
TELLING GREAT STORIES: AN INTERVIEW WITH REPORTER-TURNED-THRILLER WRITER
RICK MOFINA
Chris Richardson and Romayne Smith Fullerton
COVERING WHITE ‘JUST-US’: WHAT DID JOURNALISTS ‘REALLY’ SAY ABOUT
IPPERWASH? 
Romayne Smith Fullerton, Ginny Whitehouse and Maggie Jones Patterson
‘DEBWEWIN’: THE SEARCH FOR THE TRUTH ABOUT IPPERWASH
Peter Edwards
DID NEED FOR SPEED KILL? “STREET RACING” LEGISLATION AND THE MEDIATED
REALITY OF CRIME
Stephen L. Muzzatti
REPRESENTING RISK: CRIMINALITY, VIOLENCE, AND MENTAL ILLNESS IN CANADIAN
NEWS MEDIA REPORTING
Sarah Berry and Rob Whitley
RE-THINKING YOUNG PEOPLE, CRIME AND THE MEDIA: TURNING TRANSCENDENTAL
ILLUSION ON ITS FEET
Hans Skott-Myhre