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When media teams confront their own role in wrongful conviction cases

My investigative team uncovered evidence that could exonerate someone on death row, but our editor is hesitating to publish because it would expose how our newspaper's previous coverage contributed to the wrongful conviction narrative years ago.

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What we've seen

Institutional self-interest conflicts with journalistic duty when news organizations must acknowledge their complicity in the injustices they now seek to expose.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Wrongful conviction and structural failure?”

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