Deb Wenger, of the University of Mississippi School of Journalism, came up to the Commercial Appeal a few weeks ago to interview some of the folks involved in our True Crime project.
Her case study will be out on thecrimereport.org in the next week or so, and will include my how-to guide to working with crime data. In [...]

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This time around The Commercial Appeal tackles violent crime on the neighborhood level. Kristina Goetz examines the Clementine neighborhood, which I identified as having the most violent crimes July 2000-May 2009, and 39 other neighborhoods which account for 10 percent of the violent crime in Memphis.
Read the story here and don’t miss the rest of [...]

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Part 1 of the Commercial Appeal’s True Crime series has been published at last.
A lot of work went into the project and the result is many different components. You can head directly to the project page, or if there’s too much to wrap your head around you can use this handy road map instead.
Don’t miss [...]

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The Commercial Appeal launches the first of its five-piece series on crime in Memphis on Sunday. There’ll be about one new installment every few weeks through the end of the year.
Editor Chris Peck wrote a promo for the website. He explains a little bit about what we did, how we did it and, importantly, why [...]

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