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shoe-leather journalism

shoe-leather journalism is the alternative form of shoe leather journalism.

Meaning of shoe leather journalism

Noun

shoe leather journalism (uncountable)

  1. Investigative journalism done with great effort.
    • “A lot of it is – award winning investigative shoe leather journalism! – but not all of it.”2024 December 29, Ed Simon, “Belt’s Top Stories of 2024”, in Belt Magazine

Synonyms of shoe-leather journalism

Origin of shoe-leather journalism

From shoe-leather + journalism.

Questions about shoe-leather journalism

What is shoe-leather journalism the alternative form of?
Shoe-leather journalism is the alternative form of shoe leather journalism.

Words near shoe-leather journalism in the dictionary

  1. shoe-in
  2. shoe-ins
  3. shoe-lace
  4. shoe-laces
  5. shoe-leather
  6. shoe-leather journalism
  7. shoe-leather reporting
  8. shoe-leathers
  9. shoe-tie
  10. shoe-ties
  11. shoebag

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Adapted from Wiktionary: shoe-leather journalism (page history and authors); shoe leather journalism (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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