Welcome to On the National Security Beat. We don’t to try index all the national security related stories in the wild every day. We’ll leave that thankless job to the algorithms! We’re much more selective, regularly casting our net for stories that we think will help national security reporters of every stripe be more effective on their beats. We look for stories that:
- Might lend themselves to a local angle.
- Are based on a great idea or ideas that you could replicate in your market.
- Include new or updated resources and materials, such as reports, databases, audits, hearing testimony, etc.
- Take a new or innovative investigative approach.
- Offer tips on how to be more effective at FOIA and other records requests.
- Get beyond the “usual suspects” topical territory of the national security beat (and its many sub-beats)
- Are just generally interesting or intriguing (tour of dead dictators’ graves, for example).