The news about domestic violence: findings from an analysis of California news, 2023-2025

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We can’t solve a problem we don’t understand — and when it comes to domestic violence, decades of research suggests that news coverage may miss the scope and impact of the problem, and the important work advocates and organizations are doing to end it.

Research from Berkeley Media Studies Group helps answer the questions: How does California news characterize domestic violence? How could that coverage improve?

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