reportage

noun

re·​port·​age ri-ˈpȯr-tij How to pronounce reportage (audio)
 especially for sense 2  ˌre-pər-ˈtäzh,
ˌre-ˌpȯr-ˈtäzh How to pronounce reportage (audio)
1
a
: the act or process of reporting news
b
: something (such as news) that is reported
2
: writing intended to give an account of observed or documented events

Examples of reportage in a Sentence

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The late twenty-tens genre of #MeToo reportage cannot thrive on today’s volatile Internet. Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025 Any question of slick craftsmanship overriding reportage, however, gets quickly overridden by hair-raising sequences in which camera phones record efforts right in the middle of aerial onslaughts. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 8 Jan. 2025 Kapuscinski is the founding father and presiding deity of the contemporary Polish school of reportage, of which Szablowski is now a leading practitioner. Timothy Garton Ash, Foreign Affairs, 11 Dec. 2018 But songs are never simply diaries or reportage, even those that don’t begin as sheer fiction. Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for reportage 

Word History

Etymology

French, from reporter to report

First Known Use

circa 1864, in the meaning defined at sense 1a

Time Traveler
The first known use of reportage was circa 1864

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“Reportage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reportage. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.

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