Abstract
The study examines how Indiana education writers perceive their roles and status in the newsroom. The findings provide only qualified support for the popular and scholarly belief that education is a beat of low status and low job satisfaction. Drawing on national survey data and a state-wide survey, the study indicates that Indiana education writers are typically younger and better educated than American journalists in general, and that the Indiana writers find their work to be useful and important, but boring.
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