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Family Beat: Stories We Tell Around the Kitchen Table

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

Advice About Beats

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…

Winter 2010: Class Notes

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;…

The Capriciousness of Beats

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

The Blog as Beat

‘… 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.”

From Newsroom to Nursery—The Beat Goes On

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

Books From the Beat: A More Complicated Equation

Judy Pasternak, a former reporter at the Los Angeles Times, drew on expertise she developed covering the environment, science and other beats to write her first book. “Yellow Dirt: An…

A Journalistic Vanishing Act

‘As a refugee from daily newspapering, I’m one of thousands of arts journalists who in the past couple of years have found themselves footloose.’

Brutal Censorship: Targeting Russian Journalists

Russian human rights activist Lyudmila Alexeyeva visits the grave of her slain Chechen colleague Natalia Estemirova in August 2009. Photo by Musa Sadulayev/The Associated Press.AUTHOR’S NOTEThis story was done in…

The Attention Deficit: Plenty of Content, Yet an Absence of Interest

RELATED ARTICLES“Going Online With Watchdog Journalism”– Paul E. SteigerEditor in chief, ProPublica(From Spring 2008)“Defining an Online Mission: Local Investigative Reporting”– Andrew Donohue, editor– Scott Lewis, CEOVoice of…