Blogging the Crime Beat
http://thekojonnamdishow.org/shows/2011-02-03/blogging-crime-beat
Writing about local crimes on a blog can impact a community in many different ways. It can alert people to a problem; help catch criminals; create a sense of community; create negative images about a neighborhood; diffuse feelings of helplessness; and/or encourage feelings of frustration, just to name a few. Kojo's joined by three local bloggers who each approach crime coverage quite differently.
Guests
Dan Silverman
Author of the website "Prince of Petworth"
Laura Norton Amico
author of the website “Homicide Watch D.C.”
Doug Johnson
Co-editor of the website "Who Murdered Robert Wone"
Comments
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Thanks so much for hosting this show. Thanks especially to Laura Amico Norton for her work with DC HomicideWatch.org.
Last year I published "Who Killed Donte Manning? A Story of an American Neighborhood" (Apprentice House Press) that looks at the unsolved 2005 murder of Donte Manning in Columbia Heights and its effect on our neighborhood.
Laura's site provides a mechanism for a community to mourn, grieve, and find some kind of resolution along with the practical service of having important information aggregated in one place.
Thanks so much, Kojo, for your good work on this.