Le lundi 30 avril 2007, Alan Cox a écrit :
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 11:51:27AM +0100, Milo?? Komar??evi?? wrote:
> I'm not a native English speaker nor a beat contributor, but the way I
> understand, "beats" are smallest logical bits/short sections of the
> release notes, like e.g a "beat" on Xorg, a "beat" on the
kernel, etc.
"beat" also has other meanings - for example with policemen a "beat"
is the
area they walk and deal with.
In the case of journalists (which is the one we want) its used in the same
way to mean a writer assigned to a specific item. A beat writer might for
example be assigned to "report every Manchester United football game", and
that is all they would do. His/her job is to know everything (and everyone)
around that specific topic.
Can we say this is similar to a column in journalism?
Alain
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