Praise leads to promotion and less reviews (8)
I believe the answer is:
plaudits
'less reviews' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe there's an association between them I don't understand?
'praise leads to promotion' is the wordplay.
'praise' becomes 'plaudit' (I've seen this before).
'leads to' is a charade indicator (letters next to each other).
'promotion' becomes 's' (I can't justify this - if you can you should believe this answer much more).
'plaudit'+'s'='PLAUDITS'
'and' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for plaudits that I've seen before include "Acts of acclaim" , "Enthusiastic approval" , "Emphatic expressions of approval" , "Acclamations" , "Expressions of praise" .)