Nieman Reports
The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University
Vol. 52 No. 4 Winter 1998
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Children and Violence:
The Witness. The Victim. The Accused.

Table of Contents
School Shootings:
National and Local Perspectives.
Making Sense Out of a Tragedy:
Don't Report What You Don't Know 		by John Schwartz 5
Restraint and Empathy
Defined Reporting in Pearl, Mississippi 		by Deborah Skipper 7
Contexts, Contacts and Accuracy Were Key in Paducah, Kentucky by Jim Paxton 9
Voicing the Community's Horror Worked Well in Jonesboro, Arkansas by John W. Troutt Jr 11
Sensitive Early Reporting Opened Up Good Leads in Edinboro, Pennsylvania by Bob Lloyd 13
Giving Readers Ways to Heal and to Help in Springfield, Oregon by John Schwartz 15
When Children Witness Violence:
What Happens Next?
Mapping Children's Roadway to Violence:
The Early Years		 by Claudia Glenn Dowling 17
Interview With Photographer Donna Ferrato   19
Girls and Juvenile Violence: Stories Rarely Told by Joy D. Osofsky and Howard J. Osofsky 22
Media and Juvenile Violence:
The Connecting Threads.
Inside the Juvenile Justice System: Lifting the Veil of Secrecy by Jill Wolfson and John Hubner 25
The Courts and the Media: Improving The Dialogue by The Honorable William J. O'Neil 27
When Juveniles are Locked Up: A Reporter Uncovers Abuse in a System Few People by Mary Hargrove 30
Girls and Juvenile Violence: Stories Rarely Told by Elizabeth Mehren 33
Media and Juvenile Violence:
The Connecting Threads.
Media and Juvenile Violence: The Connecting Threads by David Doi 35
Integrating the Public Health Perspective Into Reporting
on Violence 		by Jane Ellen Stevens 37
Measuring the Effects of Changing the Way Violence Is Reported by Lori Dorfman and Esther Thorson 42
Youth and Race on Local TV News by Katie Woodruff 43
The Superpredator Script by Franklin D. Gilliam Jr. and Shanto Iyengar 45
Riding the Crime Wave: Why Words We Use Matter So Much by Jerome Miller 47
City Coverage of Juvenile Crime: The View from Chicago.
Parents' Warning: Remember the Children. by Nigel Wade 50
Editors' Question: Do We Fail Our Children? by Robert Blau 51
 

Foreign Correspondence

Showing Faces, Hearing Voices, Tugging at Emotions: Televising the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by Joe Thloloe 52
Newspaper Management Keeps Quiet About Its Role in Apartheid: In the Afrikaans Press, Some Reporters Decide to Testify by Tim du Plessis 55
Questioning If Guilt Without Punishment Will Lead to Reconciliation: The Black Press Relives Its Own Horror and Seeks Justice by Mathatha Tsedu 56
'Struggling For Memory Against Forgetting': English-Language Newspapers May Have Been Too Timid, Even Collaborated by Pippa Green 58
 

Journalist's Trade

Hey Newboys & GirlsGetting Injured Without Workers' Compensation Builds Character! by Mark Linder 61
Two Years of Living Electronically: Covering Breaking Foreign News For the Internet by Kari Huus 63
Dancing to a Different Tune: Can Traditional Media Compete With the New
Kids on the Block? 		by Caitlin Anderson 64
 

Books

Deploring the State of Beltway Journalism: 'Spin Cycle' by John Herbers 66
Cataloging Journalism's Concerns: 'What the People Know' by Thomas Winship 67
Locating the Citizens' Pulse: 'Assessing Public Journalism' by Seth Effron 68
 
Curator's Corner 3
Letters 72
Nieman Notes
The Scandal: Coverage from the Heartland by Kenneth Freed 72
Class Notes 73
End Note: Lasting Connections of a Nieman Year by Patricia Guthrie 77

The cover photograph was taken at the Wayne County Juvenile Justice Center in Detroit, Michigan.

Photo by Pauline Lubens/The Detroit Free Press.

Ribbon of quotes from "Things Get Hectic: Teens Write About the Violence That Surounds Them," by Youth Communication. Edited by Philip Kay, Andrea Estepa and Al Desetta. New York: Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1998.


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Vol. 52 No. 4 Winter 1998

Children and Violence:
The Witness. The Victim. The Accused.


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