When Burning Man is Your Beat

By: Chris Ip | CJR

This summer will be Jenny Kane’s first trip to Burning Man. No surprise—last year, six out of 10 attendees were new visitors to the experimental city that rises each summer in Nevada’s arid Black Rock Desert. The difference with Kane is that she’ll be going as the Reno Gazette-Journal’s first full-time, year-round Burning Man reporter.

The new beat is both a product of the restructuring of newsrooms at Gannett-owned papers and a reflection of how the annual event two hours outside Reno has reshaped the cultural landscape of the surrounding area.