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It’s Expertise That Matters

‘The next wave of journalistic progress will channel its power from the underlying principle of the reporter’s beat …’

Measuring Progress: Women as Journalists

In ‘The Edge of Change’ the perspective is forward-looking, even if many of the challenging issues of the past endure for female reporters and editors.

Modern-Day Slavery: A Necessary Beat—With Different Challenges

The nonprofit Schuster Institute for Investigative Journalism is dedicating a gift of funding to support a reporter’s effort to gather and tell these stories.

Returning Home to Sri Lanka to Face Difficult And Delicate Questions in Perilous Times

‘In the capital’s cafés and elegant drawing rooms open criticism of the state was soundly rejected on the funny logic that war must be won at all costs.’
Visual Stories of Human Trafficking’s Victims

Visual Stories of Human Trafficking’s Victims

An Essay in Words and Photographs

Community Host: An Emerging Newsroom ‘Beat’ Without a Guide

TBD’s community engagement team listens—and responds—in a city where everyone is talking: Washington, D.C.

Uncovering an Uncovered Story in Bell, California

Bell’s public officials went from having no coverage to an onslaught of media attention after the Los Angeles Times uncovered officials’ outsized pay. Here, reporters interview the only City Council…

The Sports Beat: A Digital Reporting Mix—With Exhaustion Built In

Wanted: sports reporters. Requirements: Boundless energy, fast fingers, a thick skin, and no need for sleep. To do the job today means tracking innumerable team-related blogs and Twitter feeds, tweeting…

Winter 2010: Introduction

Beats form the backbone of a newsroom, so what happens when resources shrink, new voices emerge and platforms multiply? Which topics stick around? What new beats emerge? As Twitter cranks…

A Shrinking Sports Beat: Women’s Teams, Athletes

As newsroom staffs shrink and eyeballs measure interest, women’s sports coverage is losing ground it once seemed to be gaining.