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shoe-leather reporting

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

Meaning of shoe leather reporting

Noun

shoe leather reporting (uncountable)

  1. 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

Synonyms of shoe-leather reporting

Origin of shoe-leather reporting

From shoe-leather + reporting.

Questions about shoe-leather reporting

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

Words near shoe-leather reporting in the dictionary

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

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