News Watch :: The public may assume that reporting from a combat zone will naturally entail the risk of being caught in crossfire and might believe that the journalists in question will have weighed those risks in some sort of risk/benefit analysis: does the story warrant the risks associated with it; how high are those risks; on a basic level, is it worth it?
While undoubtedly this sort of risk analysis does take place in the mind of the overseas war reporter, (albeit frequently instantaneously), theirs is not the only news beat that requires some level of risk calculation.
"Local journalism" - A report by Drew Hendricks, newswatch.nationalgeographic.com
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