trial coverage
Courtroom news broadcasting
Trial coverage is news reporting on court proceedings, especially high-profile criminal cases.
The term encompasses television broadcasts, newspaper articles, and online commentary following a trial's developments: The murder trial received wall-to-wall coverage.
Trial coverage often intensifies during opening statements, key testimony, and verdict announcements.
- courtroomJudicial proceedings chamber
- verdictOfficial court decision
- juryLegal decision-making body
- jury selectionChoosing trial decision-makers
- testimonySworn statement as evidence
opening statement · closing argument · gavel · witness · journalist · broadcast · live feed · headline · defendant · prosecution · lawyer · legal analyst · judge · reporter · newsroom · breaking · media frenzy · live
- legal journalismpublication bans, press gallery, court sketch, press freedom, media ethics
- crime newscrime scene, court reporter, court reporting, breaking news, arrest report
- legal medialegal drama, courtroom drama, Court TV, legal analysis, Judge Judy
- media trialsmedia circus, media frenzy, court reporting, contempt of court, courtroom decorum
- tabloid mediasensationalism, tabloids, yellow journalism, tabloidization, gossip columns
- media lawlibel, media regulation, press laws, slander, defamation
trial coveragemedia blackout
Suppression of press coverage
news embargo · press ban · gag order · news blackout · publication ban
trial coverageconfidential settlement
Private dispute resolution, undisclosed terms
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