Reporting by journalists of cause of sailing incident in bay? (8)
I believe the answer is:
coverage
'reporting' is the definition.
(synonyms)
'by journalists of cause of sailing incident in bay?' is the wordplay.
'by' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'journalists of cause of sailing incident in' becomes 'rage' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'bay?' becomes 'cove' (I've seen this before).
'rage' after 'cove' is 'COVERAGE'.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for coverage that I've seen before include "Media reporting" , "news attention" , "News reports" , "Press reporting" , "publicity" .)