19 July 2005

Is the end really near for beat reporters?

I was exploring my profile page when I got curious on the communication / media link that I opened up. One of the blogs there is from a New York-based media practitioner/professor and he has some interesting posts nyiou50k.blogspot.com/. One of them is about an article he read by Stephen Baker in Businessweek.Com, titled "End of the beat reporter."
For a former beat reporter like me, this is pretty interesting. Although, here in this 3rd world country (with 1st world pretensions), I'll give or take about years yet before it will indeed be the end of the beat reporter (that overworked yet underpaid specie, apart from the desk editor, etc - sorry, couldn't resist adding it).

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