Beats Lead To Higher-Quality Reporting

Specialized journalists produce higher-quality stories, at least when health reporting is concerned, a new study says.

There’s a lot of debate in the journalism world lately about whether reporting a regular beat makes you blind or stagnant, and some news organizations, like the Daily Caller have done away with beats (at least for now). But in many cases, beat reporters have a greater depth of knowledge than a generalist, and the new study in PLoS Medicine confirms this.

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