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🗓️ 12 September 2014

⏱️ 51 minutes

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OTM looks at the great decline in beat reporting. On the Media is supported by listeners like you. Support OTM by donating today (https://pledge.wnyc.org/support/otm). Follow our show on Instagram, Bluesky, TikTok and Facebook @onthemedia, and share your thoughts with us by emailing onthemedia@wnyc.org. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

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0:00.0	From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
0:03.2	I'm Brooke Gladstone, and this week we consider the Vanishing Beat reporter.
0:08.2	Two-thirds of audited daily papers do not assign a single reporter to cover the Statehouse.
0:15.1	Someone would have got winning this earlier, had there been a reporter there.
0:19.1	As far as I can tell, just me and one reporter at the Wall Street Journal
0:23.4	are the only full-time labor reporters at major newspapers.
0:28.5	When a newspaper assigned a reporter to a beat, such as poverty,
0:33.6	they were saying this is important.
0:36.0	You know, local news trickles up to the national level.
0:38.1	If you're losing these beat reporters,
0:39.6	you're losing these people with institutional knowledge
0:41.8	of what's going on in their cities.
0:43.4	This is just a prime example of when you turn away
0:46.8	and you let something like this grow
0:49.0	and it becomes sort of assessable of corruption.
0:52.6	Beat reporters, you don't miss them until they're gone.
0:56.0	Stay with us.
1:01.5	This show originally aired at the end of the summer.
1:04.6	It's a good one. Merry Christmas.
1:19.2	Thank you. From WNYC in New York, this is on the media.
1:20.5	I'm Brooke Gladstone.
1:21.9	And I'm Bob Garfield.
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