“I just couldn’t cope with it, you know? I just couldn’t believe that she was gone”: The Portrayal of Co-victims’ Grief in True Crime Podcasts about Missing (but Presumed Killed) Women

True crime, a subset of crime-focused media that turns real cases into entertainment for the public’s consumption, regularly features co-victims within their narratives. To our knowledge, no studies have examined how co-victims (i.e., family members and friends of the victims and/or perpetrators) of intimate partner violence are portrayed

Podcasting

Stephanie Anne Brown The International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media, and Communication (Editor: Karen Ross) Abstract Less than two decades old, podcasting is a relatively new audio broadcasting technology associated both with the disruption and renewal of older forms of media…