“…k e y w o r d s : trial reporting, press ethics, objectivity, ethical rules, case study (Harcup & O'Neill, 2017): a celebrity suspect, a female journalist as the victim, gruesome details (e.g., beheading, dismembering, and impaling), a possible sexual motive, and a crime scene one might find in a fiction novel -a submarine. Even before the trial, the intensive media coverage of the police investigation into the death of Kim Wall had sparked ethical discussions into the intensity of the media coverage, the portrayal of the parties involved, and the risk of fictionlike journalism (Wittchen, 2019). Thus, when the trial started, court reporters expected criticism from both inside and outside the news media institution.…”