Covering homicide: A new approach

The Los Angeles Times this month launched a new blog--"The Homicide Report"--that documents every homicide in L.A. County. This is an attempt, the blog's author Jill Leovy writes, "to reverse an age-old paradox of big-city crime reporting, which dictates that only the most unusual and statistically marginal homicide cases receive press coverage, while those cases at the very eye of the storm -- those which best expose the true statistical dimensions of the problem of deadly violence -- remain hidden."

More: On the Media's Brooke Gladstone interviews Leovy.