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With the building of democracy and the rule of law, the accelerated process of people's legal awareness among the increasingly urgent demands for participation and management of social affairs. The judicial power is a kind of public power, belong to the scope of social supervision. With the rapid development of mass media, the media reports related to various aspects of social life, the media reports on criminal cases, especially in major criminal cases generated great interest. Value targets is consistent with media reports and criminal trials, are the pursuit of the realization of such values ??as fairness and justice, the media reported the criminal trial had a positive impact to a certain extent. However, due to media reports the characteristics of its own nature, the lack of legal norms in the mode of operation and practice, leading to media reports on the criminal trial practice have a negative impact, affecting the neutrality and impartiality of the court. In this paper, the relationship between media coverage of criminal trials, further elaborated, drawing on the successful experience of Western countries, combined with China's judicial practice, proposals for reform and improvement. This article is divided into five parts. The first part introduces the concept of media coverage and the scope and function in the criminal trial. Media reports as an important platform for public opinion and to meet the public's right to know, to understand the scope of the concept of media coverage, it is necessary. The source of power of the media coverage is the right to freedom of expression and right to information, citizen participation in social affairs, the basis for public opinion. Media reports in a criminal trial, with oversight functions, to promote the implementation of open trial, play the function of the education of people. The second part introduces the basic principles of the criminal trial related to media reports. Open trial, independent judiciary, the presumption of innocence, the protection of the defendant return to society the pursuit of the value of criminal proceedings. The media reports on the one hand to promote the realization of these values, on the other hand, there are also conflicting side. The third part introduces the relationship between media reports and criminal trials. The media reports have a positive impact on the criminal trial, to promote open trial, the right of supervision and the right to know of the people, and promoted our legal system to improve the role of the public awareness of the law. The negative impact of media reports on the criminal trial, the impact of the implementation of the principle of judicial independence is not conducive to the realization of the principle of presumption of innocence, a violation of the portrait of the person being prosecuted and privacy impact of a fair trial, is not conducive to the transformation of the defendant's and return to society. Part IV describes the common practice and experience of international and foreign. The relevant provisions of international human rights instruments, focusing on legislation and practice in the UK, USA and Germany. Stones from other hills may serve to polish jade, learn from the successful experience of foreign, can be an important reference of our legislation. The fifth part, the proposed legislation between our media coverage of criminal trials, in practice, made recommendations to solve the problem, through the improvement of the legislation, reform and improvement, and ease the tense conflict in media coverage of criminal trials to achieve the coordinated development of the two.
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