Magazine features about rice and salt (8)
I believe the answer is:
articles
'magazine features' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to communication as well as being plural nouns.
Maybe you can see a link between them that I don't see?
'about rice and salt' is the wordplay.
'about' indicates anagramming the letters.
'and' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'rice' put after 'salt' is 'saltrice'.
'saltrice' with letters rearranged gives 'ARTICLES'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for articles that I've seen before include "Recitals (anag.)" , "Recitals for newspaper pieces" , "Recitals about newspaper features" , "Items" , "printed" .)