{"id":72,"date":"2016-10-27T04:26:10","date_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/?p=72"},"modified":"2016-10-27T04:26:10","modified_gmt":"2016-10-27T04:26:10","slug":"beat-reporting-challenges-reporters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/2016\/10\/27\/beat-reporting-challenges-reporters\/","title":{"rendered":"Beat reporting challenges reporters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">by Serina Zheng<br \/>\nphotos by Echo Luo<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Two education reporters covering violence in Philadelphia schools said interviewing a girl assaulted by a gang of students in school was challenging.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is difficult,\u201d Kristen Graham, who won a Pulitzer for her work with colleague Susan Snyder, said. \u201cAs a journalist, your job is to be objective and to be professional and write stories in an objective way. It\u2019s hard.\u201d<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_74\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-74\" src=\"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3685-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Kristen Graham says she starts her journalism career from covering a back yard fire when she was 6.\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3685-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3685-768x513.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/IMG_3685.jpg 939w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-74\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kristen Graham says she started her journalism career covering a back yard fire when she was 6.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A reporter faces a lot of challenges in beat reporting, Graham and Snyder said to an audience of nearly 60 students at Hong Kong Baptist University today.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause there are so many different types of stories I write about. The biggest challenge for me is to make sure I get to the important stories that really could be done,\u201d said Snyder, who works on the higher education beat at the Philadelphia Inquirer.<\/p>\n<p>Graham and Snyder\u2019s series, &#8220;Assault on Learning&#8221;, won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in Public Service.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can&#8217;t believe that I have the opportunity to contact with the Pulitzer Prize Winners so closely, \u201c said Gloria Gu, a communication student said. \u201cThey look like ordinary people, but they did something unusual. And I feel that it is a very cool to report other people&#8217;s stories and to stand up for those people who are in a weak position.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Serina Zheng photos by Echo Luo Two education reporters covering violence in Philadelphia schools said interviewing a girl assaulted by a gang of students in school was challenging. \u201cIt is difficult,\u201d Kristen Graham, who won a Pulitzer for her work with colleague Susan Snyder, said. \u201cAs a journalist, your job is to be objective [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":78,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ppww.hkbujournalism.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}