REPORTAGE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reportage mean? 

• REPORTAGE (noun)
  The noun REPORTAGE has 1 sense:

1. the news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

  Familiarity information: REPORTAGE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REPORTAGE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The news as presented by reporters for newspapers or radio or television

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

coverage; reportage; reporting

Context example:

they accused the paper of biased coverage of race relations

Hypernyms ("reportage" is a kind of...):

news (information reported in a newspaper or news magazine)

Derivation:

report (be responsible for reporting the details of, as in journalism)

 Context examples 

While originally applied to the reportage of current events in printed form, specifically newspapers, with the advent of radio and television the use of the term has broadened to include all printed and electronic communication dealing with current affairs.

(Journalism, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)