Reportage

Reportage can be a single journalist's report of news (especially when witnessed first-hand), distributed through the media.

A mass of media analysis and coverage about a topic can be grouped together in such phrases as: "the reportage on the subject", used in a discussion of the media's general tone.

Also, Reportage is the modern name for a eye-witness genre of journalism. This style of reporting is characterized by travel and careful observation. Literary Reportage is the art of blending documentary, Reportage-style observations, with personal experience, perception, and anecdotal evidence, in a non-fiction form of literature. The prose tends to be much longer than found in a newspaper article.

Etymology

All forms have a common route, being adapted into English in the late 19th century from the French word of the same spelling.

See Also

• Photojournalism
• Report
• Reporter

External links

• Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage
• HERODOTUS AND THE ART OF NOTICING Ryszard Kapuscinski emphasises Herodotus's ambition to understand the world, and claims his as the originator of the genre of reportage.