The History of Beats

On the Media | Dec 26, 2014

You’d think that beat reporting has been fundamental to journalism since the birth of the business. But  beats didn’t really take off until a little over a century ago. Brooke speaks with James McGrath Morris, the author of a biography of New York newspaper editor Charles E. Chapin, about the history of beats.

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