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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun News or investigative journalism that deals with serious topics and events.
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- noun publishing, broadcasting
Factual reportage of events which aresocially orpolitically significant and of aserious nature, as opposed to the reporting ofentertaining ,humorous , orgossipy accounts of relativelyinconsequential events.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun news that deals with serious topics or events
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