MISSING: Pretty White Girl. ALSO MISSING: Media Coverage Of All The Other Kinds of Missing People.

Let’s be real. The media only reports on homicides when they’re sensational and/or feature pretty white girls. Homicide Watch D.C. (one of the most innovative experiments in Internet journalism) is trying to change that by elevating the conversation and the D.C. community’s understanding of violent crimes by reporting on every single homicide in the D.C.…

By

Rebecca Eisenberg

Sep 6, 2012

Watch the video below, then visit the Homicide Watch D.C. Kickstarter page and show your support today.
[kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1368665357/a-one-year-student-reporting-lab-within-homicide-w/widget/video.html expand=1]

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