The phrase "beat reporting" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in journalism to refer to the practice of covering a specific topic or area consistently over time.
Example: "Her expertise in beat reporting on local politics has made her a trusted source for the community."
Alternatives: "coverage reporting" or "specialized reporting".
He and Times reporter Michael Hiltzik shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1999 for beat reporting for their accounts of entertainment industry corruption, including illegal detoxification programs for celebrities.
But it was more than enough to maintain a strong investigative-reporting staff of more than a dozen reporters, editors, and researchers, and to support richly detailed beat reporting across a range of local, national, and foreign-policy subjects.
Business writer Gretchen Morgenson won the beat reporting award for her Wall Street coverage.
Redefining beat reporting jobs with blogging, video and social media baked in is arguably a plan for the long haul.
The article was one of nine that the newspaper's editors included in nominating him for the Pulitzer Prize for beat reporting.
A listing yesterday of the winners of the Pulitzer Prizes misstated the subject of articles by a finalist in the beat reporting category, Jack Kelley of USA Today.
USA Today nominated him four times for the Pulitzer Prize before he became a finalist, on the fifth try, two years ago, in the category of beat reporting.
He is a three-time winner of the national Society of Environmental Journalists top prize for beat-reporting.
Sometime around 1984, political journalism began to take its cues from sportscasting, entertainment-beat reporting, and TV criticism, and the trend has continued for the past two decades.
By George Packer October 7, 2008 Sometime around 1984, political journalism began to take its cues from sportscasting, entertainment-beat reporting, and TV criticism, and the trend has continued for the past two decades.
Two senators that I had never encountered in person before, Amy Klobuchar, of Minnesota and Claire McCaskill, of Missouri, made very good and impassioned comments about the enduring value of professional local-beat reporting on crime, public corruption, police departments, and the like.
