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.

Workshop: international humanitarian law

The Crimes of War Project is accepting applications for "an intensive one-day training workshop for mid-career professional journalists on the laws of armed conflict and how they apply in the circumstances of contemporary warfare." The workshop is scheduled for March 28, 2007, at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. More information here.