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Journalists find information by interviewing people, reading
documents, and at times witnessing events first-hand. In their
writing, they cite their sources by indicating in the text of
the article where they obtained their information. (See example,
right). However, they do not provide detailed citations to other
written works in footnotes, lists of references, or parentheses.
Journalists are often knowledgeable about their "beat"
-- the type of news in which they specialize -- but they are
not experts who have spent years training and doing scholarly
research in a subject area.
While they sometimes report on findings by scholars and scientists
-- just as they report on the activities of politicians, businesspeople,
etc. -- they do not produce scholarly information in their roles
as journalists.
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