The Homicide Report: Great journalism in blog format
Posted by
Martin Stabe
on 14 January 2008 at 08:20
Tags: Blogs, Los Angeles Times, data, mapping
US National Public Radio’s On the Media this week had an interview with Jill Leovy, a Los Angeles Times reporter who writes the Homicide Report, a blog that seeks to chronicle every murder in the California city.
The blog tells the story each murder victim in the city — stories so common that before the launch of the blog, they had often unreported. More than 800 stories later, Leovy is turning the blog over to another journalist.
The blog is also gained attention for some attention for its technological innovation. By structuring Leovy’s stories as a database, the paper was able to produce what is probably the most advanced interactive maps of crimes produced by a newspaper — a type of project that at least one UK newspaper has recently attempted.
There is a lot to be learned from the Homicide Report.
