CNN.com Examines Teenager Attacks on Homeless
CNN Pressroom - Exclusive Special Coverage Offers Video, Prison Interview, Map Detailing Attacks, Homicides Nationwide
Following a year in which authorities reported more than 120 instances of teenagers attacking homeless people – as many as 20 resulting in death – CNN.com delves into this disturbing trend with extensive online coverage that includes an exclusive prison interview with a convicted teenager, video and audio packages and other interactive elements.
The coverage will be featured prominently on the homepage at www.CNN.com.
For this report, CNN.com offers a videotaped interview with Nathan Moore, who was convicted in 2005 of killing a homeless man in Milwaukee. Moore, 18, is serving a 15-year sentence at Columbia Correction Institution in Portage, Wis., where this interview took place. In the coverage, CNN.com also provides a video report on a freezing night-time tour through downtown Milwaukee with several homeless people as they offered insight into their struggles and their newfound fear of brutal beatings at the hands of teenagers.
“We’ve put the considerable resources of CNN.com behind this compelling special coverage to shed light on this troubling issue,” said Mitch Gelman, senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com. “And our users will see more of this type of original reporting – backed with extensive video, audio and interactive elements offered only on CNN.com – in the future.”
The story was reported by CNN.com writer Ashley Fantz and video was shot by photographer/editor Paul Chase.
CNN.com supports this coverage with numerous digital elements including an interactive map detailing each of the attacks reported in 2006; video packages; an audio gallery featuring interviews with a mother of a convicted teenager and with Rufus Hannah, the former homeless star of Bumfights.com; and an All Access: Backstage Pass podcast detailing how CNN.com journalists compiled and prepared the information for this report.
As the first Internet site dedicated to 24-hour news coverage, CNN.com attracts an average of more than 24 million unique users each month. Launched in 1995, CNN.com draws from the resources of CNN Worldwide to provide relevant, up-to-the minute news and information. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from video streaming and user-generated content to audio packages and searchable archives of news features and background information.
Following a year in which authorities reported more than 120 instances of teenagers attacking homeless people – as many as 20 resulting in death – CNN.com delves into this disturbing trend with extensive online coverage that includes an exclusive prison interview with a convicted teenager, video and audio packages and other interactive elements.
The coverage will be featured prominently on the homepage at www.CNN.com.
For this report, CNN.com offers a videotaped interview with Nathan Moore, who was convicted in 2005 of killing a homeless man in Milwaukee. Moore, 18, is serving a 15-year sentence at Columbia Correction Institution in Portage, Wis., where this interview took place. In the coverage, CNN.com also provides a video report on a freezing night-time tour through downtown Milwaukee with several homeless people as they offered insight into their struggles and their newfound fear of brutal beatings at the hands of teenagers.
“We’ve put the considerable resources of CNN.com behind this compelling special coverage to shed light on this troubling issue,” said Mitch Gelman, senior vice president and executive producer of CNN.com. “And our users will see more of this type of original reporting – backed with extensive video, audio and interactive elements offered only on CNN.com – in the future.”
The story was reported by CNN.com writer Ashley Fantz and video was shot by photographer/editor Paul Chase.
CNN.com supports this coverage with numerous digital elements including an interactive map detailing each of the attacks reported in 2006; video packages; an audio gallery featuring interviews with a mother of a convicted teenager and with Rufus Hannah, the former homeless star of Bumfights.com; and an All Access: Backstage Pass podcast detailing how CNN.com journalists compiled and prepared the information for this report.
As the first Internet site dedicated to 24-hour news coverage, CNN.com attracts an average of more than 24 million unique users each month. Launched in 1995, CNN.com draws from the resources of CNN Worldwide to provide relevant, up-to-the minute news and information. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from video streaming and user-generated content to audio packages and searchable archives of news features and background information.
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