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As immigration, technological change, and globalization reshape the world, journalism plays a central role in shaping how the public adjusts to moral and material upheaval. This, in turn, raises the ethical stakes for journalism. In short, reporters have a choice in the way they tell these stories: They can spread panic and discontent or encourage adaptation and reconciliation. In Murder in Our Midst, Romayne Smith Fullerton and Maggie Jones Patterson compare journalists' crime coverage decisions in North America and select Western European countries as a key to examine culturally constructed concepts like privacy, public, public right to know, and justice. Drawing from sample news coverage, national and international codes of ethics and style guides, and close to 200 personal interviews with news professionals and academics, they highlight differences in crime news reporting practices and emphasize how crime stories both reflect and shape each nation's attitudes in unique ways. Murder in Our Midst is both an empirical look at varying journalistic styles and an ethical evaluation of whether particular story-telling approaches do or do not serve the practice of democracy.
Contents
Chapter One: Introduction
Part 1: The Protectors: Sweden, the Netherlands, and Germany
Preface to The Protectors Section
Chapter Two: What the Protectors Protect
Chapter Three: Threats to and Benefits of the Protective Policies
Chapter Four: Protectors' Accountability
Part 2: The Watchdogs: England, Ireland, Canada, and the United States
Preface to The Watchdogs Section
Chapter Five: What the Watchdogs Watch, Why, and Why Watching Matters
Chapter Six: Risks and Challenges for The Watchdogs: Competition, Demonization, and Productive Examination
Chapter Seven: Accountability: Resistance and Reconciliation
Part 3: The Ambivalents: Portugal, Spain, and Italy
Preface to Ambivalents Section
Chapter Eight: Ambivalent Behavior in Portugal, Spain, And Italy: The Commitment to Maybe
Chapter Nine: Threats, Harms, And Benefits: At a Crossroads or in a Crossfire?
Chapter Ten: Is There a Way Forward for Ambivalent Journalists? Yes, No, and Maybe
Chapter Eleven: Conclusion
Appendix: List of Interview Subjects
Bibliography
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