reportorial

comparative more reportorial · superlative most reportorial

1. USOf, pertaining to or characteristic of a reporter.First known use 19th c.

   A master of simple, solid, apoetical, reportorial English.

   1988 November 4, Anthony Adler, “Hitting the Skids”, in Chicago Reader, archived from the original on 05 Mar 2016

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   So there I was, in the front row of course (it was my reportorial duty), with a bunch of gay men and straight women.

   1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11

   Among the customers, a columnist for the local newspaper was having lunch and a beer or two, though he could not restrain his reportorial instincts.

   2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 28

   These are very different kinds of books — Cade Metz’s is mainly reportorial, about how we got here; Kevin Roose’s is a casual-toned but carefully constructed set of guidelines about where individuals and societies should go next.

   2021 March 19, James Fallows, “Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN