Crime Reporting is a field of journalism that helps you wash off some of the colors from your life-viewing lenses, to let you see clearer. Crime Reporting lets you inch closest towards some of the most gruesome and often baffling actions of humans. You understand the capacity of a human mind and the things it can think of and do.
“Better a good journalist than a poor assassin.”― Jean-Paul Sartre
Many crime reporters around the globe have reached stardom because of the accounts of their sensational crimes, for example, the Bofors scandal that broke in 1987, reported by Chitra Subramaniam-Duella and N. Ram for The Hindu.
If you think crime reporting is a field you should go for because you love binge watching Law and Order and Criminal Minds, you might want to take a halt and read on some of the insider knowledge of the field:
- You are Not the Hero of the Story!
Well, we are the hero of our own stories, but when it comes to reporting on an ongoing criminal case you are not. Who might it be then, you wonder? Cops, for obvious reasons. The books and movies have sensationalized reporters and freelance intellectuals to the main crime solver, but that is not how the world works.
As a crime reporter, you have to run back and forth to the police station to know if they have got any new findings. You also have to report everything to the state police. The benefit of this situation is once there is confidence and trust developed between you and the police, he/she might call you in the first place when there is a breaking news story!
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