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shoe leather reporting en · NOUN

Etymology

From shoe-leather + reporting.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) Synonym of shoe leather journalism
    • With a little good old-fashioned shoe leather reporting, they were able to determine that some of these people hadn’t begun to vote until after they were dead. 2001, Matthew Reavy, Introduction to Computer-assisted Reporting: A Journalist's Guide, Mayfield, →ISBN, page 185:
    • Why not use old-fashioned shoe leather reporting to find her sources? 2006 April 14, Down East, volume 52, number 9, page 14:

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Synonyms

shoe-leather journalism · shoe leather journalism · shoe leather journalism