How to Use reportage in a Sentence

reportage

noun
  • But his reportage on racing goes back much further than that.
    — Brett Berk, Car and Driver, 24 June 2023
  • But by this point, the play has fully succumbed to reportage.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 6 Nov. 2024
  • Here’s some of the reportage that is already making headlines.
    — Rey Mashayekhi, Fortune, 10 Sep. 2020
  • Some readers, fooled by its up-to-date style, misinterpret it as a piece of reportage.
    — Ruth Franklin, The New York Review of Books, 4 Apr. 2019
  • Cavanagh is fully present in this hybrid of essay and reportage.
    — Longreads, 20 Dec. 2024
  • If journalism is a rough draft of history, then war reportage is very rough indeed.
    — Fintan O’Toole, The New York Review of Books, 8 Oct. 2020
  • The First Wave is a remarkable piece of reportage from the belly of the beast.
    — Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 2022
  • But songs are never simply diaries or reportage, even those that don’t begin as sheer fiction.
    — Jon Pareles, New York Times, 28 Dec. 2024
  • Present in the cabin throughout, Alpert lands a true exclusive; reportage pay-dirt.
    — Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter, 17 Sep. 2017
  • Now, many top producers think the early votes have given rise to a new feature in election reportage.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 24 Oct. 2024
  • In spite of this, the reportage from the frontlines continues unabated.
    — Avik Chanda, Quartz India, 14 June 2020
  • Any life of Casanova has to compete with his memoirs, a masterpiece of reportage.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 20 June 2022
  • The ongoing crime reportage makes life miserable for Min-ju and turn friends and neighbors against her.
    — Joan MacDonald, Forbes.com, 22 July 2025
  • Eagle makes the most of philosophical asides and straightforward reportage from his own life.
    — Jonathan Bernstein, Rolling Stone, 17 June 2021
  • In the absence of such checks, though, companies are mostly relying on self-reportage.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz India, 20 Mar. 2020
  • Fifty years later, Lumet and Chayefsky’s brilliant work of art is neither a satire nor reportage.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 21 Feb. 2026
  • His story, filled with genuine fears and regrets, reads like reportage from the psychiatrist’s couch.
    — Washington Post, 11 June 2019
  • The Fox legal team based much of the defense on a doctrine known as the neutral reportage privilege.
    — Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times, 27 May 2023
  • But perhaps the picture that ran with the story—of an outfit that Lowe had designed for the paper—was a form of reportage.
    — Judith Thurman, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • In the over two decades since, her voice, face and reportage became a mainstay for Palestinian audiences.
    — Steve Hendrix, Sufian Taha, Shira Rubin, Anchorage Daily News, 11 May 2022
  • And the archive footage, which is often 16 millimeter, is beautiful in this reportage sort of way.
    — Los Angeles Times, 17 Sep. 2021
  • Here, Seabrook brings the ease and command of New Yorker-style reportage to bear on his own family.
    — Cree Lefavour, New York Times, 30 May 2025
  • The late twenty-tens genre of #MeToo reportage cannot thrive on today’s volatile Internet.
    — Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 13 Jan. 2025
  • The book mixed its reportage about the dramatic events at the prison with passages of autobiography.
    — New York Times, 4 Aug. 2021
  • Dolan dissects his estrangement from his mother after forty years of attempts at peace, and weaves in research and reportage about child abuse and trauma.
    — Literary Hub, 28 Apr. 2026
  • And under Trump, -gating and the language of the Nixon era has become a rallying cry for robust reportage.
    — Zachary Jonathan Jacobson, New Republic, 16 May 2017
  • The Beast, as it is often known, has for more than a decade made a mark with hard-nosed reportage on top personalities and inside scoops on politics.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 23 Sep. 2024
  • Little wonder, the , that Bennett and Nawaz will be charged with doing a lot more than just relaying in-depth reportage in primetime.
    — Brian Steinberg, Variety, 2 Jan. 2023
  • The historical context and ground-level reportage on conditions on both the reservations and the oil fields add greatly to the power of the book.
    — David Conrads, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2021
  • One of the strange things about the current abundance of Covid-19 reportage is that much of it resembles old-school service journalism.
    — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 Sep. 2021

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