reportage

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

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noun

the act or technique of reporting news.

reported news collectively: reportage on the war.

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

Origin of reportage

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

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Related Words for reportage

communication, tidings, dispatch, detail, paper, relation, narration, message, digest, rundown, information, wire, record, proclamation, brief, note, version, statement, telegram, picture

Examples from the Web for reportage

Contemporary Examples of reportage

There are also portraits, protests, reportage and Jim Marshall was there to shoot it all—or pretty closely.
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Robert Birnbaum
December 13, 2014
Its essays, criticism, reportage, and poetry are not “product.”
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Lloyd Grove
December 5, 2014
But online publications had no resources to pay for investigative journalism and reportage.
With Last Media Critics Blocked, Putin Silences the Russia Press
Andrei Soldatov
March 15, 2014
A story, or even an image, can often do a better job at getting me closer to understanding than a piece of reportage.
The Perils of the Teen
Jill Bialosky
August 17, 2011
Her reportage and poetry has appeared in The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, among many others.
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The Daily Beast
March 1, 2011

Historical Examples of reportage

Even the Diary derives its whole charm from the matter and the reportage.
The English Novel
George Saintsbury

British Dictionary definitions for reportage

reportage

noun

the act or process of reporting news or other events of general interest

a journalist's style of reporting

a technique of documentary film or photo journalism that tells a story entirely through pictures

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Word Origin and History for reportage

"the describing of events," 1877; see report (v.) + -age. From 1881 as a French word in English.