reportage
pronunciation
How to pronounce reportage in British English:
UK [rɪˈpɔːtɪdʒ]
How to pronounce reportage in American English:
US [ rɪˈpɔːrtɪdʒ]
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- Noun:
- the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television
Word Origin
- reportage (n.)
- "the describing of events," 1877; see report (v.) + -age. From 1881 as a French word in English.
Example
- 1. Her own reportage here is surely an example of improvising narrative form to best convey a story .
- 2. Mcintosh tells his tale in fluid first-person reportage , with chapters that function almost as stand-alone stories , but with recurrent characters and threads and symbols , following an arc of entropy and maturation .
- 3. On the positive side , though , the year saw a bumper crop of unusually illuminating books of reportage .
- 4. His berlin reportage , from a 1963 khrushchev rally in east berlin to the tearing down of the palast der republik , brilliantly captures the intensity of the capital and its " associated layers of memory . "
- 5. This fine piece of reportage is at once calm and shocking : it portrays a relationship between america and the arab world that was based on culture and mutual attraction , not on conquest and violence .