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‘… it would be a terrific investment of reportorial resources, not to mention a valuable public service, to dedicate an entire beat to secrecy.’

‘… the hardest part of my job often isn’t getting people to talk. It’s sifting through the streaming fire hose of news to figure out which stories truly warrant more…

‘While I can’t figure out who is paying a lot of these science reporters, the quantity of what they produce does not seem to have fallen off nearly as much…

RELATED ARTICLES“The Science Beat: Riding a Wave, Going Somewhere”– Charles Petit“Guardian Blogger Spoofs Science Journalism– Jonathan SeitzEarly this fall The Guardian took an innovative approach to expanding its coverage of…

RELATED ARTICLES“The Science Beat: Riding a Wave, Going Somewhere”– Charles Petit“The Guardian Brings Scientists as Journalists Into the Mix”– Jonathan SeitzPrompted by dismay at the dearth…

‘While the science beat is old—dating back to even before Sputnik—the approach we take is new. ’

‘If we tell them well, it won’t matter what medium we use. They can be our saving grace.’

After Diana K. Sugg had been The (Baltimore) Sun’s medical reporter for six years, she wrote an enduring article about beat reporting for the Poynter Institute. In “Turn the Beat…

Investigative Reporter Craig R. McCoy Honored With I.F. Stone Medal Craig R. McCoy, who has exposed injustice and corruption during almost three decades as a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer;…

‘Sometimes the overlooked topics may be more important than the ones that dominate the headlines.’