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Tick-tock

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

nounAdvanced term

In journalism & media, tick-tock means: A detailed journalistic reconstruction showing how an event unfolded over time.

In Turkish: olayların adım adım yeniden anlatımı

How it is used

Use for a reported reconstruction of a sequence, often based on records and several interviews.

Example sentences

  1. The Sunday paper published a tick-tock of the failed rescue operation.

    The format explains how successive decisions and events led to an outcome.

  2. For the tick-tock, she matched the radio calls with the control room's written log.

    Matching independent records helps establish a reliable sequence.

Common collocations

  • write a tick-tock
  • detailed tick-tock
  • tick-tock reconstruction
  • investigative journalismJournalism that spends weeks or months uncovering hidden information, often about wrongdoing, corruption or abuse of power, using documents, data and confidential sources.
  • featureA longer article that explores a person, place, trend or issue in depth, often with description, background and human stories rather than only the latest facts.

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