reportage

[ ri-pawr-tij, -pohr-, rep-awr-tahzh, -er- ]

noun

1. the act or technique of reporting news.
2. reported news collectively:

   reportage on the war.

3. a written account of an act, event, history, etc., based on direct observation or on thorough research and documentation.

reportage

/ ˌrəpɔːˈtɑːʒ; rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ /

noun

1. the act or process of reporting news or other events of general interest
2. a journalist's style of reporting
3. a technique of documentary film or photo journalism that tells a story entirely through pictures

Word History and Origins

Origin of reportage¹

From French, dating back to 1605–15; report, -age

Example Sentences

Either way, it marked an end to the incentivized, federally endorsed reportage of fitness test results to government agencies.

From Popular-Science

He sought to depict the “men and events of the time with honesty and respect for reportage of the facts.”

From Washington Post

She initially wrote shopping, design and photography columns, developing a keen eye for interiors, clothing and other surfaces that she later brought to long works of reportage.

From Washington Post

Once a regular feature of front pages, reportage rapidly dwindled to small, sporadic clippings buried in the backs of the nation’s newspapers.

From No Straight News

Here’s some of the reportage that is already making headlines.

From Fortune

There are also portraits, protests, reportage and Jim Marshall was there to shoot it all—or pretty closely.

From The Daily Beast

Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.”

From The Daily Beast

I am the Beggar of the World is a book of poems, war reportage, and photographs.

From The Daily Beast

But online publications had no resources to pay for investigative journalism and reportage.

From The Daily Beast

The second of the Royalist's dispatches from London (catch the first one, a piece of cake reportage, here).

From The Daily Beast

For that matter the newsplastics weren't either and quickly went back to the regular mathematical reportage they do so well.

From Project Gutenberg

Even the Diary derives its whole charm from the matter and the reportage.

From Project Gutenberg