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

Recent Examples on the Web In foreign reportage, a stark narrative was already set: An Oriental anachronism was being swept away by the tide of history. Ishaan Tharoor, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024 Weeks after those initial reportage images began being shown, Braden flew to Moldova, which shares a border with Ukraine, inspired to work on a new series. Zoe Whitfield, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024 And Rainer definitely styles himself as a shy outsider and was very much into the Magnum school of reportage. Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 15 Mar. 2024 The call welcomes all genres, from fashion to documentary, art, and reportage, inviting artists who express themselves through photography and/or video. Vogue, 22 Feb. 2024 Her book Black Square: Adventures in Post-Soviet Ukraine blends reportage and memoir in a brilliant and disturbing examination of how history is manipulated by empires to serve their nationalist, xenophobic land lust. Merve Emre, The New York Review of Books, 13 Feb. 2024 Barton Gellman, a former Post journalist who was one of several reporters to whom Snowden leaked his data, and who helped reveal the surveillance program in reportage that received the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, dismissed Mr. Epstein’s claims. Emily Langer, Washington Post, 12 Jan. 2024 Advertisement Grossman has often explored the Israeli-Palestinian question in essays and reportage. Jeffrey Fleishman, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2023 This arresting short feature, which mixes elements of film diary, experimentalism, reportage and archival assembly, stretches the documentary form in ways that are personal without being self-indulgent. Dennis Harvey, Variety, 13 Nov. 2023

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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 19 Apr. 2024.

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