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Topic: Institute for Public Service Reporting
RSSThere are 17 article(s) tagged Institute for Public Service Reporting:
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August 2024
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March 2023
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An update on the Institute for Public Service Reporting and The Daily Memphian
As The Daily Memphian and the Institute for Public Service Reporting come up on our fifth anniversaries later this year, we have agreed that we both have outgrown the limitations of our arrangement.
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October 2022
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Ex-detective’s testimony hangs in balance in rape kit lawsuit
As rape survivors pursue a lawsuit accusing the Memphis Police Department of negligence, the city is asking a judge to exclude testimony of a former sex crimes detective who claims MPD failed to properly investigate numbers of cases.
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July 2022
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Kebede: Civil Wrongs project shares stories of the past still relevant today
“The cases in our region that we plan to investigate as part of the Civil Wrongs project were often trivialized by journalists at the time. Reporters often took officials’ statements without question while disregarding Black voices that dared to complicate the story.”
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May 2022
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Public or private? TVA again declines to release employee salaries
As Memphis frets over possibly leaving TVA in search of cheaper electricity, the federal agency again rejects a Freedom of Information request seeking details on salaries it pays its employees.
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April 2022
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Victim confronts former police official who destroyed evidence of her rape
Rape survivor Debby Dalhoff has been searching for decades for answers in her still-unsolved 1985 home-invasion attack by a masked intruder.
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March 2022
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MLGW disclosure rules to get Council review
A committee will review MLGW’s ethics policy to determine why its financial disclosure statements aren’t posted on the web — and why those statements require less information than state of Tennessee forms do.
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February 2022
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MLGW fails to post financial disclosure forms online
City-owned Memphis Light, Gas & Water is failing to post financial disclosure forms of its officers and directors on the Internet as contemplated in its 2007 ethics policy.
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June 2021
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Hispanic victims of domestic abuse find emotional, legal support at CasaLuz
As the pandemic hobbles on, clients have filed a record number of orders of protection for situations that were “more violent than ever.”
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July 2020
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Rape Kits promo: Investigating ‘The Mess’
Beginning Monday, the Institute for Public Service Reporting at The University of Memphis, in partnership with The Daily Memphian, reveals the results of its exclusive investigation into how thousands of rape kits went untested and the impact that backlog has had on victims.
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September 2019
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The Extra Podcast: Marc Perrusquia and David Waters on poverty, nuclear power and local journalism
With a combined 75 years of journalism experience, David Waters and Marc Perrusquia have been covering some of the hardest, most important and most complicated stories in Memphis.
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May 2019
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Recording interrogations is ‘something that should happen’
Bucking a nationwide movement, nine of 13 Southern states have no state law or court edict requiring police to video or audio record interrogations, according to recent studies.
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A RELUCTANCE TO RECORD
An investigation by the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis reveals MPD is a prominent outlier in a national movement among police departments to fully record the questioning of suspects during homicide investigations, making its detectives frequent targets for allegations of impropriety.
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April 2019
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Daily Memphian reporters among Tennessee AP contest winners
Tom Bailey, Wayne Risher and John Varlas of The Daily Memphian and Marc Perrusquia, director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting at the University of Memphis, are among the winners in this year's Tennessee Associated Press Broadcasters and Media Editors contest.
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February 2019
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David Waters joins U of M’s Institute for Public Service Reporting
David Waters is joining the University of Memphis' Institute for Public Service Reporting as assistant director. The Daily Memphian is exclusive publisher of the institute's reporting.
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September 2018
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Memphis Police Department’s response on interrogations
In response to weeks of questioning by Marc Perrusquia, director of the Institute for Public Service Reporting, about the Memphis Police Department’s long reluctance to record custodial interrogations, MPD spokeswoman Karen Rudolph released the following statements via email. The final statement repeated the Institute’s questions and provided answers. -
Defense attorney questions memory, notes vs. recorded interrogation
During the murder trial last year of defendant Brandon Taylor, defense attorney Gregory Carman and Memphis Police Department homicide detective Fausto Frias engaged in a testy exchange.
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