News in the paper concerning Republican in the soup (9)
I believe the answer is:
reportage
'news in the paper' is the definition.
'reportage' can be an answer for 'news' (reportage is a kind of news). I am not sure about the 'in the paper' bit.
'concerning republican in the soup' is the wordplay.
'concerning' becomes 're' (both can mean on a particular topic).
'republican' becomes 'R' (abbreviation in US politics).
'in the' means one lot of letters goes inside another.
'soup' becomes 'potage' (potage is a kind of soup).
'r' put inside 'potage' is 'portage'.
're'+'portage'='REPORTAGE'
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for reportage that I've seen before include "Press accounts" , "newspaper articles" , "Factual journalism" , "Style of one making documentary" , "News presentation" .)