When you cover a beat, a lot of times there are small stories that are worthy of a few paragraphs. But you often come across those stories while researching you

When you cover a beat, a lot of times there are small stories that are worthy of a few paragraphs. But you often come across those stories while researching your beat and working on longer articles. So it often makes sense to divide up resources (the time of writers) based on topic rather than story length.