Laura Amico

Journalist and Entrepreneur
April 7, 2014 - 5:30pm
“Crime Beat 3.0: Digital Reporting as a Community Empowerment Tool”
Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Room A001 See map
77 Prospect Street

In conversation with: Dean Esserman, Chief, New Haven Police Department; Zack Beatty, Director of Marketing and Media Partnerships, SeeClickFix; Mark Abraham, Director, Data Haven.

Moderated by Andrew Papachristos, Yale University Associate Proffesor of Sociology and Faculty Affiliate, ISPS.

About Laura Amico

Laura Amico is a journalist and entrepreneur. In 2010 she launched Homicide Watch D.C., an innovative platform for data-driven coverage of violent crime. The platform is used by other news organizations including The Trentonian and Sun-Times, and she assists newsrooms with strategies for covering crime and criminal justice. She was an inaugural Nieman-Berkman fellow in journalism innovation at Harvard during the 2012-2013 academic year. She began her career as an education reporter at the Register-Pajaronian in Watsonville, Calif. Later, she joined the Press Democrat’s newsroom in Santa Rosa, Calif. as their crime reporter.