Yoav Gonen on Ways to Keep Beat Reporting Stories Fresh Over Time

In Chapter 6 of 19 in his 2013 Capture Your Flag interview, New York City reporter Yoav Gonen answers "What New Challenges Are You Facing in Your Journalism and Reporting Career?" Working on the education beat as a newspaper journalist for nearly six years, Gonen looks for ways to keep his stories fresh after reporting on topics that repeat over time. He looks to different story formats to do deeper reporting and pushes himself to find new work routines to get out of the office and do reporting work on the street and at events. Yoav Gonen is a reporter and City Hall Bureau Chief for the New York Post daily newspaper. Previously he spent nearly six years covering the education beat for the New York Post. Gonen earned a B.A. in English from the University of Michigan and a Masters in Journalism from New York University.