Reportage Reportage Robyn Lee Parks Category="Journalism"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 an 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.

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