Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term
as a beat
I found that a beat means "a specific topic or area." But I'm not sure how it should be translated here. Does the author mean that the reporter should review his previous work and then try to improve it as a subject in itself? Or to try to work on it as something that he specializes in??
http://journalism.about.com/od/reporting/a/beat.htm
| 4 +1 | both |
Yasutomo Kanazawa
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| 5 +1 | as a particular topic |
Mahmoud Altarabin
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| 4 -2 | as a person's area of interest. |
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Jul 18, 2016 04:22: P.L.F. Persio changed "Level" from "Non-PRO" to "PRO"
Aug 1, 2016 13:09: Yasutomo Kanazawa Created KOG entry
PRO (3): Cilian O'Tuama, Darius Saczuk, P.L.F. Persio
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Japan
Scientia est potentia
Native in: Japanese 
Works in: English to Japanese, German to Japanese, Italian to Japanese, and 3 more.
both
As to reviewing one's previous work, this could happen if there were false or misleading information in your previous work, and realized it after a while, or some developments were seen (for ex., you did a cover story on a certain murder suspect, 2 months later, he was tried, found guilty and sentenced to life).
As to the doing more research in the area which one has interest or specializes in, one has to broaden one's network, such as meeting people and increasing sources as much as possible, plus doing one's studying and researching on your own to keep up and be up-to-date with the latest news or knowledge in one's area of specialization.
So, I would say both.
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Brazil
Technical - Fast - good price - accurate
Native in: English (Variant: US) 
, Portuguese (Variant: Brazilian)
Works in: English to Portuguese, Portuguese to English, English, and 1 more.
as a person's area of interest.
an area allocated to a police officer to patrol.
"a patrolman who strived to make his beat a safe one"
synonyms: circuit, round, route, way, path
"a cop on his beat"
a spell of duty allocated to a police officer.
"her beat ended at 6 a.m."
an area regularly frequented by someone, typically a prostitute.
a person's area of interest.
"his beat is construction, property, and hotels"
35.
one's assigned or regular path or habitual round:
a policeman's beat.
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Mahmoud Altarabin
: does not fit into this context
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actually it fits quite well in this context
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Cilian O'Tuama
: naw, it doesn't// If you'd like to communicate, feel free to write a few full sentences.
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IYHO ?? no thank you - I obviously do not agree with you
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as a particular topic
There is no possible interpretation for it that calling it "a particular topic"
http://journalism.about.com/od/journalismglossary/g/glbeat.htm
Discussion
the texts says about time references/ time referencing in copywriting, so could this have something to do with "rhythm"?