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Article: Women journalists spurred coverage of children and families: `... I no longer had to approach my work as though I didn't have children.' (Women: United States).(Column)
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- Nieman Reports
- Article date:
- March 22, 2002
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A handful of reporters and editors, most of them women, many of them parents of young children, diverted significant media resources during the mid- to late -1980's to forge new beats focusing on the needs of children and families. Some won major awards, some flopped, quite a few actually impacted public policy and improved children's lives. Perhaps more surprising, some 15 years later, the beat goes on.
Cathy Trost was a children's beat pioneer, even though she doesn't like the name of what she helped create. "I always disliked `the children's beat' name because it never accurately described the range of serious coverage the beat actually involved," Trost said ...