reportage
noun
re·port·age
ri-ˈpȯr-tij 
especially for sense 2 ˌre-pər-ˈtäzh,
ˌre-ˌpȯr-ˈtäzh
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Macy, like Klein and Coates, toggles between personal narrative, history, and reportage to weave together a surprisingly moving account of how politics can rupture the personal.
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Srishti Gupta Srishti started out as an editor for academic journal articles before switching to reportage.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
That book, Living in the Present with John Prine — out September 9th — is a mix of memoir and reportage about Prine’s life and later years.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
Less lyrical but more thorough than its predecessors, Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time draws heavily on that trove of harrowing citizen reportage.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2025
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Grace Byron, New Yorker, 22 Oct. 2025
Srishti Gupta Srishti started out as an editor for academic journal articles before switching to reportage.
—Srishti Gupta, Interesting Engineering, 3 Sep. 2025
That book, Living in the Present with John Prine — out September 9th — is a mix of memoir and reportage about Prine’s life and later years.
—Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 25 Aug. 2025
Less lyrical but more thorough than its predecessors, Hurricane Katrina: Race Against Time draws heavily on that trove of harrowing citizen reportage.
—Judy Berman, Time, 30 July 2025
See All Example Sentences for reportage
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“Reportage.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/reportage. Accessed 4 Nov. 2025.
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