Knight Center Resources

Beat Guides

Beat Guide: Energy Reporting

To cover the energy beat well, you need to understand the changing regulatory system, energy economics, environmental law, and how the electric system is put together physically. So, let’s get started.


Beat Guide: Financial Crisis

In this beat guide Mark Potts provides links to the best information on the web to ground you in covering the unfolding of the current financial crisis. Potts, a former business reporter and editor for The Washington Post, Chicago Tribune and San Francisco Examiner, is now an entrepreneur and consultant. The co-founder of WashingtonPost.Newsweek Interactive and Backfence.com, he blogs about the business of old and new media at www.recoveringjournalist.com.

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Source Lists

  • Sources & Readings, Digital Life: Policy & Privacy Online

    The "Digital Life: Privacy & Policy" seminar explores how digital technology and the Internet are reshaping society and culture, with an emphasis on privacy concerns and regulatory policy in domestic and international contexts. This is a list of readings and sources to ground reporters in these issues and to aid in reporting on them.

  • Sources, Reference and Readings: “The Economy: Bringing the Big Picture Home”

    The U.S. is stuck in the middle of what could be the worst recession since the Great Depression. There has been a proliferation of websites, reports -- and even one book already published -- helping to explain what happened, and what's still happening. Here's a guide to some of the sources most trusted by some of the top journalists covering the issue, and some resources for gathering your own basic information.

  • Erica Smith's Multimedia Tool Box

    Erica Smith, multimedia producer at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch and creator of Paper Cuts, a blog and map that tracks layoffs in the newspaper industry, lists her top lists of free web resources for multimedia journalists.

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