单词 | police round |
释义 | > as lemmaspolice round 28. Australian and New Zealand. Frequently with modifying word. Originally: the succession of routine enquiries made by a journalist covering news stories in a particular subject or area (frequently in plural); esp. in police round. Hence also: the subject or area assigned for a journalist to cover. Cf. beat n.1 Additions.Recorded earliest in roundsman n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > [noun] > routine coverage of news in specific field round1912 1912 West Australian (Perth) 7 May 8/6 As a ‘roundsman’ on the ‘West Australian’ I spent many hours with these two captors of criminals. 1934 Newspaper News (Sydney) 1 Oct. 11/1 He..left there to do Trades and Labour rounds, Police rounds and special writing for The Evening News. 1946 H. Baxter Reporter's Experiences (ed. 2) 147 A Shire Council meeting, writing paragraphs, following enquiries on rounds, with hospital, morgue, fire brigade, police stations [etc.]. 1961 C. McKay This is Life 25 At night, about half past seven, I started on police rounds. 1989 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 18 Mar. (Business section) 39 His choice was a former journalist who had covered the science round. 1996 S. A. White Reporting in Austral. (ed. 2) ii. 30 Rounds reporters are expected to know what is going on in their area and to find many of their own stories. 2003 Dominion Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Nexis) 25 Aug. 2 I also covered the courts, the police round, the occasional murder. 2010 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 6 Feb. 17 By the time he left the Star in 1986, he had..worked as an education reporter, held the health round, [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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