The largest news agency in the US changes crime reporting practices to 'do less harm and give people second chances'
- Written by: Maggie Jones Patterson, Professor of Journalism, Duquesne University
Reporting about minor crimes is about to change.Illustration by kali9/iStock/Getty Images PlusWhen suspects’ names appear in crime stories, their lives may be broken and never put back together.
For years, people have begged The Associated Press, known as the “AP,” to scrub their indiscretions from its archives. Some of those...
