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Longreads Best of 2020: Crime Reporting

by Carolyn Wells December 7, 2020October 13, 2022

Our top picks in Crime Reporting for 2020.

Posted inEditor's Pick

‘It’s the Most Outrageous Thing I’ve Ever Seen. It Makes No Sense.’

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands October 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“DNA evidence proved Lydell Grant’s innocence. So why won’t the state’s highest criminal court exonerate him?”

Posted inHighlight, Media, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

India’s Journalistic Source of Narrative Nonfiction 

by Aaron Gilbreath June 8, 2020October 19, 2022

The dangers of journalists speaking the truth will not slow this Indian magazine down.

Posted inStory

‘Victims Become This Object of Fascination… This Silent Symbol.’

by Jonny Auping August 23, 2019February 3, 2023

Rachel Monroe talks about the pitfalls of the true crime genre. “I had this feeling like I can see the whole thing and nobody else understands… That’s a real trap that we as reporters can fall in.”

Posted inNonfiction

Longreads Best of 2018: Crime Reporting

by Longreads December 12, 2018October 13, 2022

We asked writers and editors to choose some of their favorite stories of the year in various categories. Here is the best in crime reporting.

Posted inBooks, Crime, Culture, Nonfiction, Story

A New View of Crime in America

by Longreads October 10, 2018October 19, 2022

What does incarceration do for the member of a family that views prison as a rite of passage? A New York Times reporter takes a close look at intergenerational criminality.

Posted inCrime, Culture, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Vacating Convictions from Crooked Chicago Cops

by Aaron Gilbreath May 31, 2018October 19, 2022

A group of Chicago cops spent years framing innocent men, but thanks to one determined woman, their convictions are finally getting overturned.

Posted ineducation, Nonfiction, Quotes

The Amateur Sleuth Who Can’t Let One Case Rest

by Aaron Gilbreath April 16, 2018October 19, 2022

One civilian is obsessed with investigating the eight student deaths in a 1967 fire at Cornell University.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

What If Forensic Science Isn’t Really Science?

by mlegro February 8, 2018October 19, 2022

When bad forensics enter the courtroom, it can become impossible to get rid of them.

Posted inQuotes

He Seemed Like the Real Thing, Until He Wasn’t

by mlegro October 9, 2017October 19, 2022

Christopher Goffard’s seven-part series on a dangerous Orange County con man is an astonishing tale of love and violence.

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