Journalist’s Trade

An index of organizations featured in this issue of Nieman Reports.

‘Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.’

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

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…

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

CommonHealth, produced by WBUR in Boston and part of the Argo Network, focuses on health care reform and other topics related to personal health and medicine.RELATED ARTICLE“Statehouse Beat Woes Portend…

‘This is why the advice is simple: Don’t look down from that tightrope; your safety net is gone, likely forever.’

‘… 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…

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…