Drawing on interviews with journalists and police officers, this is the first ethnographic study of crime news reporting in the UK for over 25 years. It explores the changes in crime reporting over the last 40 years, including the aftermath of the Leveson Report and impediments to crime reporting in the ‘fake news’ era.

Looking to the future, Marianne Colbran considers the ways in which the new investigative non-profits work with members of the public to report stories that legacy media no longer have time or money to fund - an area of research not previously tackled by media criminologists.