Serialized podcast about deception, con artists, and people pretending to be someone else.
Serialized podcast about deception, con artists, and people pretending to be someone else.
Javier Leiva
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Does the right to know outweigh the risk of copycats, notoriety, and exposure to the suspect’s family?
The mass murder in an Atlanta massage parlor happened while I was recording my new YouTube video discussing the ethics of naming criminal suspects. Three paragraphs in and the @nytimes revealed the name of the suspect. Is that even necessary? Would the story be as informative without revealing the suspect’s name?
Romayne Smith Fullerton is a journalism professor at the University of Western Ontario. Maggie Jones Patterson is a journalism professor at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. Their book is titled Murder in Our Midst: Comparing Crime Coverage Ethics in an Age of Globalized News.
Watch our discussion.