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It\u2019s the fourth week of school and I\u2019m crying in my editor\u2019s well-lit office.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s nothing serious \u2014 I cry frustratingly easily, often about things that I\u2019m mildly stressed about or invested in. \u00a0It\u2019s involuntary and annoying.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m crying in my editor\u2019s office, across his honey-colored desk, because I want to leave the names out of my story, and he wants to leave them in.<\/span><\/p>\n

I wrote the story about something I watched happen in traffic court, a moment of simultaneous justice and mercy in a place where seemingly mundane rules can transform people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n

The judge sentenced a 30-year-old man to 10 days in jail for driving while impaired with a revoked license, despite his attorney\u2019s plea that he\u2019d been coping with the aftermath of his mother\u2019s unexpected death. While security personnel sorted the man\u2019s belongings and took him to jail, a college student read an essay about traffic school to the court. The judge dismissed the 19-year-old\u2019s speeding and marijuana charges and sent him back into freedom with a \u201cGood luck to you, sir.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Stephen Buckley, my editor, gave me this working definition of journalism in a moment of crisis the week before: true stories for the public good. I scrawled it on an empty page in my notebook three pages before the traffic court scene went down.<\/span><\/p>\n

If it were up to me, despite the 11 hours I spent in court this week, I\u2019d have written nothing at all, I tell Buckley. I don\u2019t think this story does much for the public good. I ask him if we can leave the piece unpublished or take the names out, and he says that\u2019s not up to us to decide. Everything that happened in that courtroom is already public information.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

This point I still disagree with. Just because information is public doesn\u2019t mean it\u2019s ethical to amplify. I believe that in general, it might be a good thing that you have to visit the courthouse or pay a website to find a person\u2019s dismissed charges.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

However, Buckley gently explains other important ways my thinking is wrong. I\u2019m paraphrasing my impressions here because I didn\u2019t take notes or record.<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why you have to try to talk to people and not be a chicken, he says. <\/span>(He doesn\u2019t say the chicken part.)<\/span><\/i> They might be completely game to talk to you for an article and you\u2019re missing out on an important perspective \u2014 theirs.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Also, you\u2019re assuming readers will think the worst of the people in your story, he says. Have a little more faith in them. You actually paint this teenager in a good light. People won\u2019t judge him just because the police charged him.<\/span><\/p>\n

But because I\u2019m guilty of skimming news articles and missing humanizing details, I\u2019m skeptical of the reader.<\/span><\/p>\n

It\u2019s an easier and more straightforward process to clear your name in the courts than in the newsroom, at least in Durham. I think this might be because what the court sees as punishment, journalists see as information. Also, when you\u2019re writing an article due at 11:59 p.m., it can be hard to imagine what it\u2019ll be like for someone to have that story still tied to their name on Google in 30 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Some newspapers deny unpublishing requests on principle, and some use nebulous criteria. Some will add an addendum about dropped charges but not alter an article\u2019s original text. Editors often decide on a <\/span>case-by-case<\/span><\/a> basis.<\/span><\/p>\n

In North Carolina\u2019s courts, you fill out a form and pay $175 to clear your record of prior charges and convictions. There are <\/span>how-to websites<\/span><\/a>. You can get <\/span>free legal assistance<\/span><\/a>. The DA\u2019s office itself has <\/span>petitioned<\/span><\/a> the court to do this for juveniles prosecuted as adults.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Not everyone is eligible, but the 2020 Second Chance Act allows people a new legal start. They can erase from their record non-violent misdemeanors, dismissed or not guilty charges, and certain juvenile convictions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIn a lower level case, having your arrest and your mugshot easily called up on Google anytime someone searches your name for the rest of your life might actually be a stiffer consequence than the crime itself,\u201d said Sarah Willets, spokesperson for Durham\u2019s District Attorney\u2019s office. \u201cThat could follow you for far longer than any sentence that the law would allow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

I went to Willets looking for expertise on the collateral damage of courthouse coverage because she\u2019s had a foot in both journalism and prosecution. She worked as a crime reporter for years and now she manages communications in an office where prosecutors typically can\u2019t comment to journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n

Willets thinks the press play a vital role in the courts. But, she said, they could play that role more ethically.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAre you going to follow through when you report on an arrest or a pending case? Are you going to follow through and say what the outcome was?\u201d she said. \u201cAnd if not, if it’s not worth following that case to the end, is there really a public interest in covering it?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Consider whether you\u2019re writing for the public good or just because a story\u2019s kind of interesting, and someone might want to read about it, Willets said. I believe my story fell into the second category, even though I was hoping to write something of the first.<\/span><\/p>\n

Willets told me she fought with her editors too. She wrote about a reentry program and one man\u2019s experience leaving prison for her last story at <\/span>Indy Week<\/span><\/i>. She wanted to leave the man\u2019s crime out, her editor wanted to leave it in.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The city \u2014 Durham \u2014 had decided he should move on, she said. \u201cAnd who are we to stand in the way of that?\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Her editor countered: that\u2019s a big thing to conceal from readers. The editor won \u2014 the man\u2019s conviction sits in the fifth paragraph of the published story online. <\/span><\/p>\n

I left Buckley\u2019s office thinking he too had won, that we would publish the story, and with names.\u00a0<\/span>But to spare me the stress, and because the primary goal of this class is to learn, not just to publish, he told me later that we wouldn\u2019t.<\/span><\/p>\n

Before I keep complaining about being a \u201cstudent journalist\u201d who doesn\u2019t seem to want to publish any journalism, I\u2019ll flash us back to last fall. I was among a crowd of protestors in head-to-toe black that set off fireworks outside Durham County jail.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in their march they\u2019d chanted, \u201cNews is cops, news is cops,\u201d and blocked TV cameras with umbrellas. I\u2019d chanted along the rest of the night, but in those moments I hesitated, not sure what to say.<\/span><\/p>\n

I was in a news writing class at the time and thought I wanted to become an audio journalist.<\/span><\/p>\n

Four days later I was back in journalism class and still thinking about it. If news is cops, should I be writing news? Can journalism avoid this?<\/span><\/p>\n

A friend who was there that night graciously gave me some of their time on the phone. They told me a local TV station had posted mugshots of their friends arrested for protesting earlier that summer. Then those friends got doxxed, which means readers found and published their private information online, a particularly vicious revenge tactic. The news cost them.<\/span><\/p>\n

My traffic court article was a different situation entirely. Buckley told me so while I objected, and he was right. But I do think about how what my peers and I write can reinforce the judgments of a broken criminal legal system.<\/span><\/p>\n

How do we balance readers\u2019 trust with future costs to our sources, costs exacerbated by internet longevity? Is every omission an effort to conceal? How do we minimize harm while maximizing the public good? <\/span><\/p>\n

Willets gave me a few recommendations. In essence, she said, look for consent and context. Talk to the parties involved \u2014 especially victims \u2014 and make them understand how this story could follow them, she said. Situate the criminal case within the social issues forcing people to come to court, like lack of mental health care or community investment. Study the research around crime. Stick around and follow through.<\/span><\/p>\n

This advice is hard to follow on deadline. Court cases can take forever: even the simple ones may drag on for months or years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Sarah Koenig and Emmanuel Dzotsi spent a year reporting <\/span>Serial<\/span><\/i> season 3, the podcast that inspired the creation of the 9th Street Journal\u2019s courthouse reporting project. Each vignette they present from the Cleveland courthouse consists of months of interviews. Our vignettes, or “Courthouse Moments,” pan out over one week.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe that\u2019s where I land: I\u2019m unwilling to do quick journalism, even if that means I won\u2019t be employable in this field. Maybe one day newspapers will make different decisions about whether their quick news should last forever in its original form; maybe we\u2019ll make unpublishing guidelines more transparent to the people we report on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve come to any solid answers. I have a feeling I\u2019ll squirm closer to a conclusion in the coming years, talking through these conflicts with editors (and unfortunately probably after shedding a few more tears).<\/span><\/p>\n

Photo Above: Lilly Clark, by Josie Vonk — The 9th Street Journal<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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