About Us

Since 2005, The Columbia Heart Beat has been making and breaking news in Columbia, Missouri.  With a back to the basics of journalism approach that emphasizes old fashioned investigative reporting, The Columbia Heart Beat carries on the muckraking tradition of Jacob Riis, Upton Sinclair, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein at the local level. 

 

About Mike Martin

A former senior science writer for United Press International, Mike Martin has written articles for Science, The Scientist, and MIT's Technology Review, Harvard Magazine, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, the Epilepsy Foundation, the Association of American Medical Colleges, the U.S. Department of Energy, and the California, Oregon, and Missouri university systems. When his dues haven't lapsed, Martin is also a member of the National Press Club and the National Association of Science Writers.