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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.
December 15, 2010

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…
December 15, 2010

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…
December 15, 2010

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…
December 15, 2010

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.
December 15, 2010
Argo Network: NPR’s New Group of Beat-Driven Blogs

Argo Network: NPR’s New Group of Beat-Driven Blogs

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…
December 15, 2010

Frank Deford: Sports Writing in the Internet Age

Nearly a century later Twitter is the telegraph in the press box. Reporters watch the New York Giants play the Philadelphia Athletics in the 1913 World Series. Image from the…
December 15, 2010

From Journalism to Self-Publishing Books

‘Our experience with print-on-demand books offers promising and challenging news.’
December 15, 2010

Figuring Out What a 21st Century Book Can Be

When an author’s insistence on publishing under a Creative Commons license met resistance from book publishers, he decided to self-publish his book with Lulu.
December 15, 2010

Gay Talese: On What Endures in Sports Writing Amid Change

Early in October Gay Talese came to the Boston Athenaeum to celebrate publication of “The Silent Season of a Hero: The Sports Writing of Gay Talese.” In this collection of…
December 15, 2010