Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The reporting of news or information of general interest.
  • noun Something reported.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Report.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete SAme as report.

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  • noun the reporting of news, especially by an eyewitness
  • noun news or information of general interest that has been reported

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, from reporter, to report, from Old French; see report.]

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From French reportage.

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Examples

  • Q: Why should you not take seriously any economic reportage from the NY Times?

    Q&A 2009

  • His reportage from the West Bank has exposed the murderous behaviour of Israeli settlers there, and more recently he covered the banning of foreign journalists from Gaza by the Israeli government.

    Archive 2009-01-01 2009

  • Delany contrasts the representation of actualities, events that "have happened", the level of subjunctivity we find in reportage, with the representation of possibilities, events that "could have happened", the level of subjunctivity we find in naturalistic fiction.

    Narrative Grammars Hal Duncan 2008

  • Next about atlas (t): the galleon trade edition atlas (t): the galleon trade edition is a project of the parent blog, atlas (t): mapping, taxonomy, and you. the galleon trade edition is embedded reportage from the front lines of the 2-3-year art campaign Galleon Trade in Philippines, California, and Mexico.

    galleon trade edition 2008

  • Sixteenth-century watercolor reportage from the New World

    Boing Boing 2008

  • Delany contrasts the representation of actualities, events that "have happened", the level of subjunctivity we find in reportage, with the representation of possibilities, events that "could have happened", the level of subjunctivity we find in naturalistic fiction.

    Archive 2008-01-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Ange admits to disliking discursive, essayistic language in poetry (and I totally agree that such anecdotal reportage is almost always tiresome), but I am not so sure that the cited poets, whom she dislikes, actually make a habit of indulging in such asensual, abstract writing at all.

    Writing and Failure (Part 7) : Christian Bök : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

  • Comment: about atlas (t): the galleon trade edition atlas (t): the galleon trade edition is a project of the parent blog, atlas (t): mapping, taxonomy, and you. the galleon trade edition is embedded reportage from the front lines of the 2-3-year art campaign Galleon Trade in Philippines, California, and Mexico.

    galleon trade edition: bill sorro 2007

  • Here a selection of the original reportage is shown followed by the magazine layouts - published in the magazine with two fluffy cats on the cover.

    Boing Boing 2007

  • Ange admits to disliking discursive, essayistic language in poetry (and I totally agree that such anecdotal reportage is almost always tiresome), but I am not so sure that the cited poets, whom she dislikes, actually make a habit of indulging in such asensual, abstract writing at all.

    2007 September : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation 2007

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