beat writer
Fifties bohemian author
A beat writer is a journalist assigned to cover a specific subject area regularly—a particular team, industry, or institution.
The beat is their territory: the paper's crime beat writer, ESPN's Yankees beat writer.
They develop expertise and sources through sustained coverage, distinguishing them from general assignment reporters.
- KerouacBeat Generation novelist
- On the RoadBeat Generation travelogue
- Ginsberg"Howl" writer, beatnik
- beatnikFifties counterculture member
- jazzImprovisational American music genre
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- newspaper jobsreporter, editor, journalist, columnist, photographer
- sports commentatorscolor commentator, TV analyst, studio analyst, play-by-play announcer, play-by-play
cultural and aesthetic values
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organization man · traditionalist · company man · suburbanite
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