The media plays a key role in ensuring that victims and survivors are not re-traumatized during post-conviction claims of innocence and exonerations. Indeed, these cases create opportunities for the media to cover personal stories of great interest to the public.
Past media attention around these cases has tended to focus on the experience of the people who were wrongly convicted and imprisoned. The resources here offer a new perspective on these cases and an opportunity to report on them in a way not done before.