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	AP in California-Beat Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beat Reporting on Transportation: Stay Ahead of the Curve
		That estimate was supported days later when campaign finance reports were posted and the rest of the media reported the numbers.
		Steve Lawrence and Don Thompson of AP's Sacramento bureau are winners in the 2005 Capitolbeat Awards, presented Aug. 19 by the Association for Capitol Reporters and Editors at its Capitolbeat Conference in Seattle.
	www.ap.org /california/beat_reporting.htm (283 words)

	Poynter Online - Chip On Your Shoulder
		Unlike other journalists, beat reporters every day face the challenge of encountering sources who may not be pleased with their reporting.
		Beat reporting takes courage, discipline and judgment, knowing which story has to be written today and which can be put off.
		Beat reporters get comfortable with their sources, the jargon and the process, forgetting who they're working for.
	www.poynter.org /column.asp?id=52&aid=15521 (817 words)

	Handbook of Independent Journalism
		Beat reporters have one basic responsibility: to stay on top of the news in their specialty area.
		Beat reporters develop stories through their own enterprise, by building relationships with sources who will keep them abreast of what's really going on, not just in public but behind the scenes.
		Whatever beat a journalist chooses or is assigned to cover, one basic skill is essential: the ability to understand the institutions that dominate the beat.
	usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/journalism/special.htm (3019 words)

	NewsLab Articles: The Beat Goes On
		About a quarter of stations have beat reporters covering consumer news and an equal number have a government beat—whether the focus is on city hall, the state house or politics in general.
		One reporter covers the Research Triangle, the airport, and technology, as well as an outlying county; another is responsible for keeping tabs on a nearby community, religion and the state board of education.
		And beat reporters need to accept the fact that, on occasion, they’ll be asked to cover other stories when the station is short-staffed and there’s a must-do story that day.
	www.newslab.org /articles/beatgoeson.htm (1622 words)

	Sun medical writer Sugg wins Pulitzer for beat reporting - baltimoresun.com
		Diana K. Sugg, a medical reporter for The Sun, won journalism's highest honor yesterday for a series of articles ranging from stillbirths to sepsis to the controversial practice of hospitals allowing families to comfort loved ones in emergency rooms.
		Reporters Jim Haner, John B. O'Donnell and Kimberly A.C. Wilson were finalists in the explanatory journalism category for their series, "Justice Undone," which investigated Baltimore's high rate of unsolved homicides.
		Reporters, editors and executives at The Sun crowded around Sugg as she waited by a computer terminal for the final word about the Pulitzers.
	www.baltimoresun.com /news/bal-te.pulitzer08apr08,0,1177356.story (715 words)

	J341: Newspaper Reporting
		A news beat is an institutional or issue area that generates enough news and reader interest to make it worthwhile for a newspaper to assign a reporter to cover it on a regular basis.
		That is, a good beat has stories that can be told with lots of concrete detail but also with broad themes that speak to abstract issues and ideas.
		Though the reports and stories must be your own individual work, you may collaborate with a class partner in the brainstorming, planning, and reporting stages of the beat project.
	journalism.indiana.edu /syllabi/archives/nord/j341spring02/beat.html (799 words)

	mcall.com - Sun medical writer Sugg wins Pulitzer for beat reporting
		Diana K. Sugg, a medical reporter for The Sun, won journalism's highest honor yesterday for a series of articles ranging from stillbirths to sepsis to the controversial practice of hospitals allowing families to comfort loved ones in emergency rooms.
		Reporters Jim Haner, John B. O'Donnell and Kimberly A.C. Wilson were finalists in the explanatory journalism category for their series, "Justice Undone," which investigated Baltimore's high rate of unsolved homicides.
		Reporters, editors and executives at The Sun crowded around Sugg as she waited by a computer terminal for the final word about the Pulitzers.
	www.mcall.com /technology/bal-te.pulitzer08apr08,0,4286481.story (657 words)

	Beat Reporting System
		The Department has divided the City into three beats, or reporting areas.
		Beat 1 - East of State Route 53 and north of Central Road.
		Beat 3 - East of State Route 53 and south of Central Road.
	www.ci.rolling-meadows.il.us /RMPD/beat_reporting_system.htm (59 words)

	Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting has been presented since 1991 for a distinguished example of beat reporting characterized by sustained and knowledgeable coverage of a particular subject or activity.
		1991: Natalie Angier, The New York Times, for her compelling and illuminating reports on a variety of scientific topics.
		2001: David Cay Johnston, The New York Times, for his penetrating and enterprising reporting that exposed loopholes and inequities in the U.S. tax code, which was instrumental in bringing about reforms.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pulitzer_Prize_for_Beat_Reporting (405 words)

	PressThink: Philip Gourevitch: Campaign Reporting as Foreign Beat
		Hanging out with a pack of reporters, where everyone is chasing the same story (but there really is no story)— that’s alien to his experience, not the sort of thing he does at all.
		This was the reporter who decided to stay after all the correspondents in Saigon were pulling out because the Americans had pulled out and the Communists were going to win.
		In the end the truth is objective and can be found but that requires reporting both sides of a complex issue and using some kind of objective metric to compare them and thus answer the question: "is it better or worse." This would soon become sterile and unintereting and wouldn't sell papers.
	journalism.nyu.edu /pubzone/weblogs/pressthink/2004/09/22/gour_talk.html (9822 words)

	Poynter Online - Weather Reporting as Beat Journalism
		Doctors and lawyers and other professionals use their education and expertise to report, interpreting important and complex material for consumers of news.
		Weather coverage from reporters in the field is often live, which means there's virtually no editorial process of verification or script-checking.
		And the reporter assigned to the storm damage tonight was at a murder trial earlier today.
	www.poynter.org /content/content_view.asp?id=82916 (913 words)

	Poynter.org - Turn the Beat Around (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		In fact, when you are a beat reporter, the kingdom of journalism is at your feet: investigative pieces, features, profiles, news analyses.
		You're the reporter who's been cranking out the complicated stories that no one cares about, the must-do stories that are killing you, but you feel like they are getting you nowhere.
		As a beat reporter, you will be furiously working away, and you'll look across the newsroom and see other reporters taking long lunches.
	legacy.poynter.org /centerpiece/100801.htm (4740 words)

	JOMC 253 Syllabus
		Students are required to write a beat report plus at least 10 hard-news stories (not including the final-project enterprise-reporting assignment.) Each story will be 2-3 pages in length, with no fewer than three separate sources.
		The Beat Report is a detailed, 3- to 5-page memo from the student-reporter to the instructor-editor that outlines a specific beat, its chief officials and newsmakers, elected or appointed bodies, and that speculates on the likely news stories that will break during the semester.
		Beat Assignments: Four assignments will be written from a beat selected by students and the instructor at the beginning of the semester.
	www.unc.edu /~haman/jomc54.htm (1254 words)

	Beat Reporting
		Beat Reporting is an advanced course that focuses on the art of adopting a news beat or coverage area by developing and cultivating sources, researching sources, conducting interviews, reporting objectively and writing tightly using the inverted pyramid as the primary style.
		The course will explore the traditional news beats including city hall, the police, the courts, the military, the environment, religion, education and health.
		In addition students will investigate emerging beats such as personal finance and technology and entertainment, and beats specific to regions of the country that cover such issues as aviation, space or immigration.
	www.nu.edu /Academics/Schools/SOMC/Communication/Courses/JRN335.html (96 words)

	THE GLOBAL BEAT-RESOURCES FOR THE GLOBAL JOURNALIST
		Only those who have the blood of fellow Iraqis on their hands will be excluded from the offer, reports the Washington Post, in what is an implicit recognition by the government backed by the U.S. of the legitimacy of having waged war against Coalition forces in Iraq.
		posted extracts from the IAEA report on Iran which is to be discussed by the Security Council.
		reports that Iran has called off talks with the U.S. over Iraq because Ahmedinajad has said they're no longer necessary, it behooves editors to dig a little deeper, for the simple reason that Ahmedinajad does not make foreign policy.
	www.nyu.edu /globalbeat (7892 words)

	LBY3»Blog Archive » Beat reporting: Bad for journalism? - The continuing adventures of Beau Yarbrough
		So the reporter faced a choice: She could sit on a perfectly newsworthy story that would embarrass the sources she relies on, or she could write it and sacrifice her future effectiveness as a police reporter.
		But the beat system also requires reporters to get to know the people who control the information their coverage depends on, so they can call on those sources and rely on them.
		I’m not sure how practical getting rid of beat reporting would be, and I suspect the short-term losses of having reporters who know, say, local government well enough to cover it with any sort of insight might outweigh the long-term gains of not having reporters beholden to their subjects.
	www.lby3.com /archives/1045 (737 words)

	50 CAR ideas for your beat
		One Florida reporter did that and found several humorous items in the police department files: A file titled "Daytona Beach Police Deployment Map" turned out to be a color map showing the location of all the doughnut shops in the area.
		Using local crime statistics reported annually to the FBI, or the police departments own statistics (if they are comprehensive enough), tell readers where most crime happens in a town and what kind of crime it is. Compare crime rates to populations to get a crime index.
		Type information from state nursing home inspection reports into a database to analyze what home(s) in your area have the most and worst violations, what they are and what's being done about them.
	www.notrain-nogain.org /Tech/Tips/50Tips.asp (2451 words)

	The Drum Beat 234 - Reporting on Development Issues
		Reporters are poorly paid and do not have time to investigate different subjects ("I am on a deadline, sir").
		Their "impact" can be measured by the attendance and the number of articles and broadcast stories produced right after the event - a guaranteed success, since editors already expect reporters to produce a couple of stories to compensate their absence from the newsroom.
		This issue of The Drum Beat is meant to inspire dialogue and conversation among the Drum Beat network.
	www.comminit.com /drum_beat_234.html (1836 words)

	Communication 359: Reporting Public Affairs
		Monthly reports should include a summation of stories from your beat you read, the hot issue, phone calls you made, meetings you attended, news releases you received, etc. You are expected to have checked in at least once a month with your source.
		Examples are a story on government finances or a government report of general interest, an analysis of census data or education figures or scores.
		You are expected to do sufficient reporting to understand the viewpoints of the principal actors and to include the range of positions in your stories.
	www.cla.purdue.edu /people/comm/jnatt/com359.htm (3369 words)

	NPR : Nabbing a Pulitzer, from an Oregon Weekly
		Breaking News Reporting: The Star-Ledger, Newark, N.J., for coverage of the resignation of New Jersey's governor after he announced he was gay and confessed to adultery with a male lover.
		Explanatory Reporting: Gareth Cook of The Boston Globe for explaining the complex scientific and ethical dimensions of stem cell research.
		Beat Reporting: Amy Dockser Marcus of The Wall Street Journal for her stories about patients, families and physicians that illuminated the often unseen world of cancer survivors.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=4576547&sourceCode=RSS (609 words)

	Beat Reporting (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Beats are defined by geography, institutions and themes.
		They are important because they help give reporters direction to their reporting.
		Beat reporters are always on a scavenger hunt to find out what's going on.
	www.accd.edu /pac/communic/Denise/beatreporting.htm (166 words)

	beats
		To help develop this skill, each JOUR 458 student is assigned a beat to cover and required to provide beat reports every day he/she is scheduled to work.
		Beat reports generate original, newsworthy local stories that should be unique to Athens MidDay News.
		All beat reports must include the date; basic who/what/when/where of the story idea, some story development including who might be interviewed and what b-roll could be shot, the source of the story idea, and at least one contact name and phone number.
	www.scripps.ohiou.edu /actv-7/manual/beats.htm (553 words)

	ACJ Review: Writing and Reporting News
		With the emergence of multi-media writing courses, versus news print writing and reporting courses, there has been an assortment of text books claiming to meet the demands of teaching both types of courses.
		Beat reporting, obits, speeches, government, crime, disaster, and profile stories are highlighted with coordinating exercises in the Workbook.
		This text is not recommended for a media one or reporting one class which is to serve as the stepping stone for an advanced writing class.
	acjournal.org /holdings/vol4/iss2/reviews/blakelyreview.htm (565 words)

	The Job of Reporting About Wal-Mart - Donald W. Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism at API
		Reporters should be aware that there are several Web sources they can turn to when tracking news on Wal-Mart, Halkias said.
		Reporters covering the Wal-Mart discrimination story have already seen the company begin to take internal action.
		Reporters say that though once Wal-Mart felt they were being targeted because they were the âBig kid on the block', that mentality no longer exists.
	www.americanpressinstitute.org /rt/062504/sweeney (931 words)

	Journalism and Mass Communications--Washington and Lee University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Your beat is a territory and a topic – as “cops and courts” entails the jurisdictions of Lexington and Rockbridge and the subject of “crime and society.” You will be assigned a beat, develop your sources on this beat, and become an expert-generalist on the issues.
		Possible beats: Cops and courts; politics and government (the previous beats can be subdivided by Lexington, Rockbridge County, Buena Vista; taking these geographic beats gives you more freedom to cover anything newsworthy within the territory); K-12 and higher education; social welfare and religion (including non-profits); ; business/economic development; arts and culture; transportation/utilities.
		Instead, you will select a newsmaker on your beat and record a 12-minute broadcast interview with him or her, in the TV studio on the third floor.
	journalism.wlu.edu /J253-263/J253-263syll.htm (2086 words)

	The Beat — Infoplease.com
		Perhaps that's because the uniformed cops walk the beat and leave the crime-solving to the plainclothes detectives.
		beat generation - beat generation beat generation, term applied to certain American artists and writers who were...
		The beat is a tougher one today: reporting on the environment requires more and better training of those who do it.
	www.infoplease.com /ipea/A0855122.html (264 words)

	Society of Environmental Journalists: SEJ Awards for Reporting on the Environment 2004 contest winners
		In all, 24 entries involving at least 38 journalists were honored for outstanding in-depth and beat reporting on the environment in newspapers, and on radio, television and the Internet, as well as in small-market media.
		Borenstein's reporting tools range from the Freedom of Information Act to document lack of EPA enforcement under George W. Bush to treks into Alaska's wilderness to witness the melting of permafrost in a warming climate.
		The committee's co-chairs are Vince Patton, reporter for KGW-TV in Portland, Oregon, and Tim Wheeler, reporter for The Baltimore Sun.
	www.sej.org /contest/winners2004.htm (2274 words)

	Reporting II
		Reporting II is intended to introduce students to public affairs beat reporting, the most likely entry-level job for beginning reporters.
		Before starting your assigned beat, you are expected to read the appropriate chapters in the textbook and also additional readings specific to that particular beat.
		You will be required to develop one story on the filing of a civil action; one story based on a one-to-two-hour segment of a criminal court trial, and a third story based on some issue or development in the judicial system.
	jcomm.uoregon.edu /~sponder/j462_S97 (852 words)

	Best of Gannett 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Jerry Mitchell, 47, investigative reporter with The Clarion-Ledger at Jackson, Miss., won for Investigative Beat reporting that led to the indictment and conviction of aging Klansman Edgar Ray Killen in the 1964 slayings of three civil-rights workers in Neshoba County, Miss.
		There was stunning depth in the reporting and public records work.
		This reporting led to the reopening of one of the most outrageous crimes of the civil-rights era.
	www.gannett.com /bestofgannett2005/beatreporting1.htm (77 words)

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