Reportage sometimes refers to the total body of media coverage of a particular topic or event, including news reporting and analysis: "the extensive reportage of recent events in x. " This is typically used in discussions of the media's general tone or angle or other collective characteristics.

Reportage is also a term for an eye-witness genre of journalism: an individual journalist's report of news, especially when witnessed firsthand, distributed through the media. A journalist (also called a newspaperman) is a person who practices Journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events trends News is any new information or information on Current events which is presented by print, broadcast, Internet, or Word of mouth "Popular press" redirects here note that the University of Wisconsin Press publishes under the imprint "The Popular Press" This style of reporting is often 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. Art refers to a diverse range of Human activities creations and expressions that are appealing to the Senses or Emotions of a human individual Literature is the Art of written works Literally translated the word means "acquaintance with letters" (from Latin littera letter This is perhaps more commonly called creative nonfiction and is closely related to New Journalism. Creative nonfiction (also known as literary or narrative nonfiction is a genre of Writing which uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives New Journalism was a style of 1960s and 1970s News writing and Journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time The prose of such reporting tends to be more polished and longer than in newspaper articles. For the Wikipedia guideline regarding editing articles see WikipediaManual of Style.

Etymology

All forms have a common route, being adapted into English in the late 19th century from the French word of the same spelling. French ( français,) is a Romance language spoken around the world by 118 million people as a native language and by about 180 to 260 million people

See also

• Reportage Festival, Sydney
• creative nonfiction
• New Journalism
• Photojournalism
• Report
• Reporter

External links

• Lettre Ulysses Award for the Art of Reportage

• HERODOTUS AND THE ART OF NOTICING Ryszard Kapuściński emphasises Herodotus's ambition to understand the world, and claims his as the originator of the genre of reportage. Creative nonfiction (also known as literary or narrative nonfiction is a genre of Writing which uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives New Journalism was a style of 1960s and 1970s News writing and Journalism which used literary techniques deemed unconventional at the time 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 In writing a report is a document characterized by information or other content reflective of inquiry or investigation which is tailored to the context of a given situation and audience A reporter is a type of Journalist who Researches and presents information in certain types of Mass media. Ryszard Kapuściński ( IPA: kapuɕ'ʨiɲski; March 4 1932 - January 23, 2007) was a popular Polish Journalist Herodotus of Halicarnassus ( Greek: Hēródotos Halikarnāsseús) was a Greek Historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( 484 BC&ndash

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