coverage

    nounBand 6

    UKˈkʌvərɪdʒ
    USˈkʌvərədʒ

    The reporting of an event or subject by the press, television, or online.

    Several television cameras and microphones on stands set up facing an empty podium in a press room
    Every camera on one podium: coverage is how the news reports an event.

    The election received wall-to-wall coverage.

    Media coverage shaped public opinion.

    Watch out

    many coverages of the eventextensive coverage of the event

    Coverage is usually uncountable in this meaning.

    Goes with

    Words that go with coverage: media coverage; news coverage; extensive coverage; live coverage; blanket coverage.

    Similar and opposite

    Similar
    reportingreportage
    Opposite
    blackout

    Word family

    The coverage family: coverage (noun), cover (verb, noun).

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