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Crime Pays, If You're A Journalist

CANADALAND

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The Importance of Centered Crime Reporting

Dr. Alana Frick's friends, family and colleagues bemoaned on social media that press coverage was framing the story as brilliant neurosurgeon murders wife by sliding into narrative grooves. "I have been dubious about this notion of victim centered crime reporting," she says. At its worst, it has felt to me like a very specific and specifically biased form of biography where we're not going to glorify the killer or give them the attention they deserve, even if it's infamy.

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