Lugo-Ocando, J. and Faria Brandao, R. (2015) Stabbing News: Articulating Crime Statistics in the Newsroom. Journalism Practice. ISSN 1751-2786
Abstract
There is a comprehensive body of scholarly work regarding the way media represent crime and how it is constructed in the media narrative as a news item. These works have often suggested that in many cases public anxieties in relation to crime levels are not justified by actual data. However, few works have examined the gathering and dissemination of crime statistics by non-specialist journalists and the way crime statistics are gathered and used in the newsroom. This article seeks to explore in a comparative manner how journalists in newsrooms access and interpret quantitative data when producing stories related to crime. In so doing, the article highlights the problems and limitations of journalists in dealing with crime statistics as a news source, while assessing statistics-related methodologies and skills used in the newsrooms across the United Kingdom when producing stories related to urban crime.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 Taylor & Francis. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journalism Practice on 15 July 2015, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/17512786.2015.1058179. |
Keywords: | crime statistics; journalism; media; news; objectivity; policy |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Journalism Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 29 Oct 2015 14:37 |
Last Modified: | 17 Jan 2017 13:07 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2015.1058179 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1080/17512786.2015.1058179 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:88707 |