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Encyclopedia > Reportage

Reportage can be a single journalist's report of news (especially when witnessed first-hand), distributed through the media. It has been suggested that this article or section be merged with reporter. ... News is new information or current events. ...


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. Venus de Milo exhibited in the Louvre museum, France. ... Literature is literally acquaintance with letters as in the first sense given in the Oxford English Dictionary (from the Latin littera meaning an individual written character (letter)). The term has generally come to identify a collection of texts, which in Western culture are mainly prose, both fiction and non-fiction... Prose blah blah blahProse generally lacks the formal structure of meter or rhyme that is often found in poetry. ...


Etymology

All forms have a common route, being adapted into English in the late 19th century from the French word of the same spelling. (Redirected from 19th) 19 (nineteen) is the natural number following 18 and preceding 20. ...


See also

Sports photojournalists at Indianapolis Motor Speedway Photojournalism is a particular form of journalism (the collecting, editing, and presenting of news material for publication or broadcast) that creates images in order to tell a news story. ... A reporter is a type of journalist who researches and presents information in certain types of mass media. ...

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.

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Reportage Home (351 words)
Like the ACIJ itself, Reportage is committed to the idea that the media can play a role in making those in power accountable to the public.
Reportage is Sydney based but our focus is on both national and international issues, engaging contributors from around the world.
Reportage is produced by UTS journalism students (some of whom are professional journalists) and staff.
Charles Laughlin, Chinese Reportage, reviewed by Susan Daruvala (2618 words)
Rather, it is argued that Chinese reportage creates a narrator who perceives historical events and persons as symbolic of abstract processes, and who does this perceiving “not as an individual or generalized human being but as one who primarily and collectively identifies with the Chinese nation” (39).
The chapter on post-1949 reportage yields the valuable insight that these texts, which often feature young men and women working closely together in exciting situations, “re-contain or displace their youthful energies from the dangerous realm of private intimacy to the 'useful' realm of economic or political construction.” (251).
Laughlin is explicit that a “radical moral iconoclasm, formed to a large extent by Leninism, is particularly prevalent in reportage and is closely related to the construction of the collective subjectivity that characterizes the development of the genre” (89).
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