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A Journalist’s Letter From Academia

Making the switch from full-time journalist to tenured professor is more challenging—and rewarding—than one might think.
March 11, 2011

It’s Scary Out There in Reporting Land

‘Beats are fundamental to journalism, but our foundation is crumbling.’
January 10, 2011

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.
January 10, 2011

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.
January 10, 2011

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

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

The Sports Tweet: New Routines on an Old Beat

‘As much as possible, I adhere to the same reporting rules with social media when it comes to breaking news. Do I have a reliable source? Is this information on…
December 15, 2010

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;…
December 13, 2010

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.”
December 9, 2010

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.’
December 9, 2010