The Good News Beat

Yikes. What's so unsettling about this is that implicit in the idea that there is specifically "good" news is that there is also specifically "bad" news — when, in fact, there's just the infinite variety of stuff around us that deserves and demands the kind of coverage that helps our consumers to better understand the place and the time in which they live. I think (I hope) those of us who strive to do the type of journalism we discuss here embrace the reality that we can contribute to that heightened understanding by working (and working and working) to tell the sorts of stories that aren't good or bad but BOTH. Okay. End of rant.