Here’s an idea to steal and adapt: Local news sites nationwide rely too heavily on law enforcement sources, and crime stories dominate their news coverage. Gannett newsrooms committed to repairing relationships and building trust with members of marginalized communities by rethinking community justice and public safety coverage.
Question: What was it about your newsrooms and your communities that drove this change?
Answer: Gannett’s Public Safety Mission Statement emerged locally and then regionally before being scaled nationwide in spring 2021, as multiple newsrooms recognized that traditional crime reporting was not serving our communities’ interests, nor our own.
