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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
reportage
noun
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▪ Marvellous, sharp-end reportage is a big part of this book.
▪ Photographic reportage, the cinema and television have produced a lingua franca of universally comprehensible pictures.
▪ The bomb and the bullet of course provide more dramatic reportage than hard graft, the golf club and fishing rod.
▪ The line between reportage and fiction, between social satire and sentimental snapshots, was blurring.
▪ The title came from the nineteenth-century paper produced by the Chartists that had combined satire with working-class reportage.
▪ These sometimes interrupted the schedules, as did extensive reportage of elections, of local Assemblies.
▪ This is not to say that the standard of reportage is not high - but quality varies as does layout and printing.
▪ What do we learn from this piece of reportage?
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reportage

Reportage \Re*port"age\ (-[asl]j), n. SAme as Report. [Obs.]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
reportage

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

Wiktionary
reportage

n. 1 the reporting of news, especially by an eyewitness 2 news or information of general interest that has been reported

WordNet
reportage

n. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television; "they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations" [syn: coverage, reporting]

Wikipedia
Reportage (album)

Reportage is the working title of an unfinished album that the British band Duran Duran wrote and recorded as the intended follow-up to their 2004 reunion album Astronaut. After the 2006 departure of original guitarist Andy Taylor, the band decided to start over with a new batch of songs that became 2007's Red Carpet Massacre.

Reportage (disambiguation)

Reportage sometimes refers to the total media coverage of a particular topic or event, including news reporting and analysis.

Reportage may also refer to:

  • Reportage (album), an unfinished and unreleased album by the British band Duran Duran
  • Reportage (TV show), a youth-oriented current affairs show in the BBC's late-80s/early-90s DEF II slot
  • Neutral reportage, a common law defense against libel and defamation lawsuits usually involving media republishing unproven accusations about public figures
  • Reportage Press, a publishing house
  • Reportage 57, a 1959 East German film

Usage examples of "reportage".

NOT, consume candy bars or any other sweets, nourishments, condiments, or beverages at homicide scenes, since television reportage of the above-said masticatory acts tends to promote an image of departmental insensitivity toward the deceased.

The reportage of war would never be the same after Antietam, and Gardner knew that the battles to come would see photographers from North and South rushing to the scene.

However, the author of Night of the Cooters has been around a long time, as you might infer from this bit of reportage.

Soon she embarked on her first serious romance, with a divorced adjunct professor who claimed to have won prizes for his reportage of the Vietnam War.

Nick talked to them to begin with, having been briefed to a certain extent by Charlot, but Merani soon took over the main burden of reportage with occasional interjections from the other points on the open ground circuit.