beat
Primarily a US term for the subject matter or geographical area that a *reporter might be assigned to cover, as in ‘the crime beat’ or ‘the Washington beat’. Reporters might still be expected actually to beat (walk) streets and stalk corridors in person but today they are even more likely to be required to monitor ... ...
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