2000/06/01 by Kimberly A. Maxwell, John Huxford, Catherine Borum +1 · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Health Professions · Psychology · Medicine · #Intimate Partner and Family Violence #Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health #Sex work and related issues #Newspaper #Domestic violence #Media coverage #Content analysis #Minor (academic) #Criminology #Event (particle physics) #Political science #Advertising #Psychology #Suicide prevention #Sociology #Media studies #Poison control #Law #Social science #Business #Environmental health #Medicine
paper · doi:10.1177/107769900007700203
openalex publication_date 2000/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/11
This article examines how the Simpson case affected newspaper coverage of domestic violence. We analyzed the frequency with which domestic violence was covered and the content of that coverage in the New York Times, the Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News. As expected, the number of non-Simpson domestic violence stories increased immediately after the event but declined in the majority of newspapers afterwards. The hypothesis that domestic violence story coverage would shift from incident focused to socially focused reporting was not generally supported. Social coverage was present across all domestic violence stories before the Simpson event, and with only minor variations, the overall coverage content did not change.