The profile court case that I chose was the Jodi Arias trial. She was convicted with first degree murder in the trial for Travis Alexander, her ex-boyfriend, on May 8, 2013, but jurors can’t come to a unanimous decision over the trial.
Alexander was killed in his home in Mesa, Arizona on June 4, 2008. He was found with multiple stab wounds, a slit throat, and a single gunshot wound to the head. At the trial, she testified that she killed Alexander in self-defense.
Pictured here is Arias:
This case has been covered by a ton of different groups, from the Huffington Post and ABC News, to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter.
The Huffington Post site has more than one article on Arias and the trial, including photos from the crime scene and videos.
The site also covers the trial from the beginning of this year. Although the case started in 2008, the site has managed to keep a good upkeep on the trial even though they’ve only started posting about it in January of 2014.
The site itself is pretty easy to navigate. The main articles for the story are spanned three across at the top and then there are more articles and videos as you scroll down the page.
The only problem I see with it is that it isn’t very clear on what is what. If it’s a video or an article, it doesn’t say. There’s just a picture by the synopsis of the article, but there isn’t any further detail unless you click on the article.
The trial seems to be represented accurately, for what Huffington Post has posted within the last nine months about the trial.
ABC News has also covered the trial. It seems to be up-to-date as well, although this site (once you navigate back through the archives for 8 pages), only started posting the trial since January of 2013.
As stated, it seems like it is being kept up-to-date. The videos and articles shown are similar to the ones that the Post showed.
The site is pretty simple to navigate as well. It has a main photo of Arias during the trial at the top and then underneath that, there are two rows of articles that pertain to Arias-from trials that are similar to hers to the fact that she’s selling the glasses she wore during the trial.
HLNTV.com has covered the story as well. I’m not for sure when the site started posting about the trial, as the results are not in chronological order, so that’s a bit confusing.
They seem to be following the story very well. At the top of the site, there is a huge synopsis of Arias and her trial/verdict. Underneath that, are rows of articles pertaining to her as well.
Thousands of people are still captivated by her and her trial. They still haven’t reached a verdict on whether she should receive life or death.
http://www.hlntv.com/embed/113587
AZCentral covers the story article by article when searched in Google. Only two articles about her came up with this address site when Googled.
The site seems to be a little sarcastic when speaking about Arias and how her trial is going. They seem to patronize her rather than have an open, non-biased opinion. The site is navigable also. The story is easy to read and you know what the topic is.
USA Today has also reported this story. The article they used tells all about the trial and why Arias was tried in the first place.
It explains the crime committed and that, while Arias was found guilty, the jurors still aren’t sure if she should receive life or death.
This is a video from ABC News that tells about how the glasses Arias wore at her 2013 trial are now up for auction:
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This video is a “look back” video of Arias’s trial and everything that happened: <script type=”text/javascript” src=”http://video.foxnews.com/v/embed.js?id=2399674796001&w=466&h=263″></script><noscript>Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a></noscript>
This is a video that “unravels the lies” of the trial: Unraveling the lies of Jodi Arias – Videos – CBS News.
This video goes behind the scenes of the trial and “what you didn’t hear” from AZ Central: EXCLUSIVE: Behind the Jodi Arias trial – what you didn’t hear.
This video is from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. It is an interview with Nancy Grace and Arias about the trial: <div style=”background-color:#000000;width:520px;”><div style=”padding:4px;”>http://media.mtvnservices.com/embed/mgid:arc:video:thedailyshow.com:7d4a1105-8ede-43e8-9057-bc5480a76c57<p style=”text-align:left;background-color:#FFFFFF;padding:4px;margin-top:4px;margin-bottom:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12px;”><b><a href=”http://thedailyshow.cc.com/”>The Daily Show</a></b><br/>Get More: <a href=”http://thedailyshow.cc.com/full-episodes/”>Daily Show Full Episodes</a>,<a href=”http://www.facebook.com/thedailyshow”>The Daily Show on Facebook</a>,<a href=”http://thedailyshow.cc.com/videos”>Daily Show Video Archive</a></p></div></div>
This video is another “uncut” version-“The interviews you haven’t seen.” from HLNTv.com: http://www.hlntv.com/embed/90677
Overall, these sites seem to do a good job of keeping an upkeep on the story as it is still going. The trial has been going for a while, so none of them seem to date as far back as 2008. They do tell the important facts though and that helps the reader to understand what is going on.
Katy Robbins 