ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (March 26, 2025) — The Poynter Institute is proud to announce the newsrooms selected for the 2025 cohort of Transforming Local Crime Reporting into Public Safety Journalism, led ...

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Crime news has been a fixture of journalism for centuries. The true crime genre, from documentaries to podcasts to YouTube channels to TikTok explainers, has boomed over the last decade. And news ...