Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

shoe leather journalism

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.75 in modern English

Syllables: shoe leather jour-nal-ism
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

21

Letters

3

Syllables

13

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Investigative journalism done with great effort.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"“A lot of it is – award winning investigative shoe leather journalism! – but not all of it.”"
"The novel is laugh-out-loud funny in places and also something of an elegy to the days of shoe leather journalism."

Etymology

From shoe-leather + journalism.

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

shoe-leather journalism (alternative)

Synonyms

shoe leather reporting shoe-leather reporting

Questions

What does shoe leather journalism mean?: Investigative journalism done with great effort.
Where does shoe leather journalism come from?: From shoe-leather + journalism.

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