abstract:In journalism, shoe-leather reporting describes an on-the-ground approach to journalism, where reporters leave the safety and comfort of their desks, abandoning electronic and telephonic communication, to pound the pavement in the search of answers.
Johnson's shoe-leather reporting and keen insights on the struggle of Southern blacks during the civil rights era won him the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting in 1966, one of many honors showered upon him during a brilliant career that spanned more than 50 years.
Tucker and I will get to the bottom of it, and we intend to do it by in-depth, old-fashioned shoe leather reporting -- beginning tonight over huge slabs of beef and giant pitchers of beer.