On elephants, obsessions and wicked problems: A new phenomenology of news « news thing
Goodbye to the beat The first “beat reporters” were probably the men sent by newspapers to hang around the criminal courts in the early 19th century. Today almost every news outlet is organized around fixed beats: “financial markets”, “real estate”, “technology”, and so on. These are now so ingrained that we see them as an…
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