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Created 09/18/2012 - 8 months ago
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 ingra...
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newsthing.net
Love this piece on rethinking #journalism that @AntoniaZ is circulating: http://t.co/5ZZoJ5Fk #cdnpoli
On elephants, obsessions and wicked problems: A new phenomenology of news http://t.co/dST4Akzv
By-by to beats, hello to obsessions: A new phenomenology of news http://t.co/ATZxNl4R @glichfield
Beats vs. Phenomenons. What do you think is better? #PR #news http://t.co/rGQDtsJX
RT @HelenWalters: great post by @glichfield on why newspaper beats are over. the politics of beat-dom used to drive me crazy at bizweek: ...
Beats aren’t so much an objective taxonomy as a convenient management tool. http://t.co/5gxGWR4O
A new phenomenology of news: http://t.co/1SEfv4Cx by @glichfield - On launch of @quartznews - More on Quartz here: http://t.co/iPB343x5
RT @stevelevine: I resume scrutinizing the geopolitics of energy and technology very soon at Quartz. How will it tick? Read this. http:/ ...
@CoryTV czech this out http://t.co/0LFd3BlU
RT @drgrist: I like the notion of obsessions rather than beats: http://t.co/lqfWPqyf It's certainly what drives my writing. (via @jayro ...
RT @quartznews: "On elephants, obsessions and wicked problems": Our news editor, @glichfield, explains how we're rethinking news beats. ...
2nd journo in 2days 2 announce move here. @stevelevine: I resume scrutinizing geopolitics of energy/tech soonat #Quartz http://t.co/EZBymZiq
RT @zseward: At @quartznews, we are ditching beats in favor of obsessions. @glichfield explains: http://t.co/pOYKJc54
RT @noahchestnut: My questions to @glichfield re: Quartz's focus on big picture problems http://t.co/21JnVVZx How to bridge the data gap ...
Intrigued by @quartznews, specifically http://t.co/1J8pHUES
cool beans people http://t.co/0LFd3BlU
RT @Niketa: RT @toddjolmstead: @quartznews philosophy: "To explain world's beg phenomena, you need to see (or feel) whole elephant" http ...
Quartz (Atlantic Media) on organizing news around obsessions, not beats. Lots to like. Via @jayrosen_nyu http://t.co/OU07Zhf0
Oui,oui. RT @Mediamag_cibl: Un nouveau média en ligne à venir (@quartznews) annonce la mort des "beats" journalistiques http://t.co/iejurHGR
RT @elizabethsosnow: Are beat reporters a thing of the past? via #commentz http://t.co/5Tudt5Nl (what do you think, PR folks?)
RT @Melanie_ASU: Beats->obsessions. A new phenomenology of news. http://t.co/9E7ppghh
RT @jayrosen_nyu: The editors of Quartz (qz dot com) say they are ditching beats for "obsessions." http://t.co/bd4dzNJN I like it.
If you're a news org trying to "figure it out," this would be a very good article to read: http://t.co/cH2b8fs1 via @glichfield @quartznews
What Quartz thinks about beats: http://t.co/aBWU5mky cc @stan_alcorn @lenagroeger @marynmck @maiasz @ErinPodolak @sci2mrow
Una nuova fenomenologia delle notizie http://t.co/WrbZeezc
Move over beats, make way for phenomenons @quartznews http://t.co/YYCwcuqK via @pankajontech