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Fewer mugshots, less naming and shaming: How editors in Cleveland are trying to build a more compassionate newsroom

“Quinn has changed Cleveland.com’s policy of automatically using mugshots (‘the worst photos people will ever take’) with minor crime stories. It no longer names perpetrators of minor crimes in its stories. (If you’ve been listening to the current season of Serial, you know the criminal justice system in Cleveland is far from a perfectly fair operation.) “

Nieman Lab

October 18, 2018

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