Monthly Archives: March 2007

nzherald top stories – week of Feb 25

These were the most-read stories this week on nzherald:

1. Australia rocked by ‘lesbian’ koala revelation
2. Rickards – I will return to police work
3. Cousin: Wife in police sex case told me to say I don’t remember
4. Chinese sharemarket plunge spreads global ripples
5. Police sex trial: What the jury never knew

Source: New Zealand Herald

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Is Pickton trial a case of too much information?

The trial of mass-murder-accused Robert Pickton has prompted Canadian editors to publicly defend their decisions either to report more-or-less fully the gruesome details of the case or to report only the less offensive parts.

Surveys show the public to be divided between “we need to know” and “we don’t need to know”, meaning editors don’t have the luxury of simply following the public mood on this one.

Regan Ray, writing in the Ryerson Review of Journalism, looks at how various media outlets have reported the case, and handled the backlash.

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