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Byline: Cristiano Lima Andy Parker has tried seemingly everything to get videos of his daughter Alison Parker's murder wiped off social media platforms, where they spread after she was fatally [...]

Byline: Cristiano Lima To this day Andy Parker says he hasn't watched the videos of his late daughter, local news reporter Alison Parker, being fatally shot while airing a live [...]

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The case against Adnan Syed, made famous by the podcast ''Serial,'' will get another re-examination in a four-hour documentary series on HBO, the network announced on Wednesday. ''The Case Against [...]

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''Serial,'' the blockbuster investigative podcast, ended its first season two weeks ago after gripping millions of listeners this fall with a 15-year-old murder mystery in Maryland. But the story of [...]

Byline: Howard LaFranchi Beyond its barbarity, the latest beheading video from the Islamic State offers hints of an organization in transition and perhaps under duress. Unlike earlier videos of the [...]

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Does a journalist's confidentiality agreement with sources cover footage of an apparent killing? That is one question raised in an article in the April 5 edition of The New Yorker, [...]

MALACCA, Thurs. - A 32-year-old salesman died and his younger brother and a friend were seriously injured after 10 men attacked them at Taman Muhibbah, Merlimau, last night. T. Selvakumaran, [...]

Yvonne O'Brien and Vicky Hall were both brutally murdered, yet the contrast in the way their deaths have been reported in the British media is striking. O'Brien, who was murdered in Majorca in Sep. 1999, has been portrayed as a lonely 44-year-old divorcee searching for love who died after playing masochistic sex games with her killer. Hall, a 17-year-old student, has been portrayed as pretty, vulnerable and innocent. The revelation that Hall had not been sexually assaulted made headline news while the horrors of O'Brien's killing were described in detail. Hall was a 'good' murder victim but O'Brien was not.

The Government injunction to prevent the Sunday Telegraph printing leaked extracts of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry report on Feb. 21, 1999, was another dramatic twist in newspapers' battle for ownership of the Lawrence story. Every newspaper wants to be able to say that it provided the best coverage of the Lawrence story yet the national media had shown very little interest in the story prior to the Daily Mail's now famous 'Murderers' front page. Former editor of black paper the Weekly Journal Richard Adeshiyan describes the behaviour of the white press as bandwagon journalism.

The contrasting coverage of two brutal murders that took place on Jul. 15, 1997, highlights the hierarchy of death that exists for the British media. The murder of Italian fashion designer Gianni Versace led the main television news bulletins and received saturation coverage in national newspapers. The murder of Northern Ireland teenager Bernadette Martin was totally ignored by BBC1's Nine O'Clock News and four national newspapers. Martin's murder made the front page of only one national newspaper, the Daily Telegraph, which dealt with it in just four paragraphs.

Julie Ward was murdered in the Masai Mara in 1988 and only fragments of her body have been found. The Sunday Mirror published a sleazy article on her, mildly pornographic, saying that she was very sexually active and provocative and that her friend Steve Watson was linked to her murder. The freelance reporter was David Barritt and the senior Mirror staff initially complained to by Julie's father were Eve Pollard and Robert Maxwell himself. Legal action by Stephen Ward against David Barritt eventually led to a financial settlement and, much more important, a retraction and apology.

The Daily Mail has played a key role in bringing the murder of black teenager Stephen Lawrence to the attention of Middle England, yet its first attempt at covering the story consisted of a single paragraph in the news in brief column on May 8, 1993. The Mail's famous Murderers front page in Feb. 1997 marked a turning point in media coverage of the Lawrence case. The Mail has run more than 170 stories either about, or mentioning, Stephen Lawrence in the last 12 months, while other newspapers and television have been competing to provide the most detailed coverage of the teenager's death.

Italian newspaper coverage of a triple murder in the Vatican on May 4, 1998, has reflected Italians' tendency to see hidden meanings in everything, but there are nevertheless some oddities in the account given by the Pope's spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls. Navarro-Valls declared on May 5, 1998, that Lance-Corporal Cedric Tornay had killed the newly appointed commander of the Swiss Guard, Alois Estermann, and his wife, Gladys Meza, in a 'fit of madness' sparked by resentment at the way Estermann had treated him. However the evidence suggests that Tornay, who committed suicide, acted with premeditation.

The Daily Mail won the admiration of its tabloid rivals on Feb. 14, 1997, by naming five men as the murderers of black teenager Stephen Lawrence and challenging them to sue it if they dared. The five had provoked widespread outrage earlier in the week by claiming the common right of 'privilege' against self-incrimination to refuse to answer questions at an inquest into Lawrence's death. The jury returned a verdict of unlawful killing in an unprovoked racist attack. Daily Mail deputy editor Peter Wright explained that the newspaper had taken action because of the seriousness of the case.

Diana Lamplugh, mother of estate agent Suzy Lamplugh who vanished in Jul. 1986, believes that the law should be changed to protect the character of a murder victim. The Lamplugh family were not consulted over a new book by Christopher Berry-Dee dealing with Suzy's disappearance. Carlton Television broadcast a dramatisation of the killing of Penny McAllister by her husband's mistress despite repeated pleas from McAllister's relatives not to show the film. London Weekend Television showed a programme about murdered Oxford undergraduate Rachel McLean in defiance of her family's wishes.

The discovery of the naked body of Janet Brown at her home received widespread newspaper coverage on Apr. 12, 1995, yet only a few newspapers mentioned the discovery of the body of Michael McMurtry on a beach on Apr. 1, 1995. McMurtry was a divorcee living alone in a flat while Brown was a mother of three who had a luxurious home and was active in the local community. Brown, a pretty, upper middle-class blonde who was clearly innocent of any crime, provided the almost perfect media murder. In contrast, the fatal stabbing of Paul Nixon outside a pub would probably not have made front page news had he not been a football fan.

The case of Private Lee Clegg, the soldier convicted of murdering joyrider Karen Reilly at an army checkpoint in Northern Ireland in 1991, has attracted great press attention in Jan. 1995, yet Clegg's original trial and subsequent appeal passed almost unnoticed. A story portraying Clegg as someone who, overnight, was turned from a soldier simply doing his duty in terrorist-ridden Belfast, Northern Ireland, into a murderer appeared in the Daily Telegraph on Jan. 13, 1995. The delivery of a final judgement on Clegg by the Law Lords prompted extensive press coverage and a tabloid campaign to free him.

The American mass media gave good coverage to the case of former African American football player and actor O.J. Simpson, accused of murdering his white wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her lover Ronald Goldman. The pursuit of Simpson by the police was telecast live by National TV, interrupting news broadcasts. The preliminary hearings were also telecast live and the case was given front page coverage by reputed magazines such as Time and The New York Times.