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Sun 1 Mar, 2015 02:11 pm
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Set beats, diary stories, presentation of opinions rather than facts, the use of news wire and public relations material, and the recycling of news within and across formats , have all become a naturalized part of news production
@mediaacademic,
A beat is the routine duty a policeman walks (in bygone days in the '50s and '60s).
News reporters also have their newsbeats ...the contacts and routines they follow in order to vet and/or get his/her stories completed.
So ..my thought is ...a
set beat means a fixed routine of duties that a reporter or media follows to get a story out to the public..
Beat means the territory one covers--that was true in the 19th and 20th century with regard to police officers and reporters. A set beat, then would in the context of journalism mean the territory the reporter habitually covers--society news, fashion news, sports, politics, international news--any one of several areas of journalism. Even more than police officers, journalists tend to develop a particular area in which they are, or hope to be taken for expert. That is their set beat.
@Setanta,
Beat me daddy, eight to the bar.
There still are police beats, at least up to 2005, when the New York City policeman, Edward Conlan, had his non-fiction book, Blue Blood, published to much acclaim from critics, and now that I've read it, also acclaim by me.
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