Beat Guides

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.

Beat Guide: Courts & the Law

So you're assigned to cover courts and the law—where to begin? Here's a guide designed to help you navigate the complexities of legal reporting and provide some overall guidance and helpful resources.


Beat Guide: Business Reporting

George Anders

If you are joining your publication’s business reporting team, you are probably wondering where to begin. Here's a guide designed to help you find good stories, approach business coverage effectively, make sense of the jargon and avoid some common early missteps.

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.