The craft of reporting examined closely: developing a beat, source protection, document verification, records requests, corrections practice, and the ethical decisions taken close to deadline. Examples come from published work with the reasoning made explicit. For working reporters, editors and journalism instructors.
The craft of reporting examined closely: developing a beat, source protection, document verification, records requests, corrections practice, and the ethical decisions taken close to deadline. Examples come from published work with the reasoning made explicit. For working reporters, editors and journalism instructors.
In a newsroom where the editor covers her own church's fundraiser, the policy that works lists real local entanglements, sets a disclosure habit, and names who decides — in two pages.
Rosa Marchetti · July 27, 2026
The line is the reporting: facts are shareable, the work that gathered them is not, and crediting the outlet that did the digging is both ethics and self-interest for small newsrooms.
Nathan Brooks · July 5, 2026
The coverage is shaped before anyone leaves the building: staffing in pairs, safety gear decided, arrest protocols agreed, and the story's focus fixed on what the protest is about.
Rosa Marchetti · June 12, 2026
Full anonymity is a specialist skill; the baseline is not — device updates, a password manager, two-factor hardware, encrypted source channels, and a threat model written on one page.
Rosa Marchetti · May 20, 2026
Truth sandwich structure, pre-bunking, and coverage of the counting process itself let newsrooms cover election falsehoods without repeating them into every headline.
Rosa Marchetti · April 27, 2026