Digital Deadline: The St. Louis <i>Post-Dispatch</i> and the Kirkwood Shooting

This case about the St. Louis, MO, Post-Dispatch addresses how to manage a breaking story online when it could have traumatic effects on the local community. It also raises the challenge for editors of deciding what to put in the paper once a story has broken on the website.

Case number: CSJ-09-0014.0
Category: Journalism Cases
Topics: digital media, crisis reporting
Teaching resources: Epilogue, Teaching note

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