The front page of today's Albuquerque Journal includes a story on consumer bankruptcy by Winthrop Quigley and one on a new generation of nuclear weapns by John Fleck.
Quigley came to business reporting from business. Fleck has science training. No wonder their stories make complex subjects accessible. (At least I understood both and I am famously backward where it comes to science and financial matters.)
Print journalism would benefit from even more reporters with education, training and work experience in the fields they cover.
Network TV news operations usually employ a specialist or two; science, law and health are the most common In local TV news, so-called, specialists are very rare. (No, someobdy who has reported the police blotter for years is not a crime specialist.)
This is basic stuff but it's worth touching on from time to time. Reporters with background can do a better job than generalists. It's also true that well-educated generalists are preferable to news people who have studied "how to" in journalism schools. But that's another topic.