Journalist’s Trade

‘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…

‘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…

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

‘… the Internet changes the concept of the beat: A blog such as ours becomes a valued partner of political reporters offering them additional sources and fresh angles for stories.”

‘That is when I had the epiphany: These early years of motherhood were like being a rookie reporter on the beat.’