What's the difference between news and reportage?

News


Definition:

  • (n) A report of recent occurences; information of something that has lately taken place, or of something before unknown; fresh tindings; recent intelligence.
  • (n) Something strange or newly happened.
  • (n) A bearer of news; a courier; a newspaper.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Lucy and Ed will combine coverage of hard and breaking news with a commitment to investigative journalism, which their track record so clearly demonstrates”.
  • (2) Today’s figures tell us little about the timing of the first increase in interest rates, which will depend on bigger picture news on domestic growth, pay trends and perceived downside risks in the global economy,” he said.
  • (3) Gallic wine sales in the UK have been tumbling for the past 20 years, but the news that France, once the largest exporter to these shores, has slipped behind Australia, the United States, Italy and now South Africa will have producers gnawing their knuckles in frustration.
  • (4) A Swedish news agency said it had received an email warning before the blasts in which a threat was made against Sweden's population, linked to the country's military presence in Afghanistan and the five-year-old case of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad by Swedish artist Lars Vilks.
  • (5) Fatah leader Yahya Rabah said the organisation would celebrate "with our brothers in Hamas", the Ma'an news agency reported.
  • (6) But the Franco-British spat sparked by Dave's rejection of Angela and Nicolas's cunning plan to save the euro has been given wings by news the US credit agencies may soon strip France of its triple-A rating and is coming along very nicely, thank you. "
  • (7) Meanwhile Ed Miliband, the Labour leader, waiting anxiously for news of the scale of the Labour advance in his first nationwide electoral test, will urge the electorate not to be duped by the promise of a coalition mark 2, predicting sham concessions by the Conservatives .
  • (8) And perhaps it’s this longevity that accounts for her popularity: a single tweet from Williams (who has 750,000 followers) about the series will prompt a Game Of Thrones news story.
  • (9) Channel 4 News said on Friday that Manji and the programme’s producer, ITN, had made an official complaint to press regulator Ipso.
  • (10) Evidence of the industrial panic surfaced at Digital Britain when Sly Bailey, the chief executive of Trinity Mirror, suggested that national newspaper websites that chased big online audiences have "devalued news" , whatever that might mean.
  • (11) The detail of all of that will come over the coming months,” Cormann told Sky News.
  • (12) We are firmly opposed to that," an unidentified spokesman from the ministry of industry and information technology told the state news agency, Xinhua.
  • (13) One might expect that a similar news spike and rebounding of support for stricter gun control can happen, given President Obama's new push.
  • (14) George Osborne said the 146,000 fall in joblessness marked "another step on the road to full employment" but Labour and the Trades Union Congress (TUC) seized on news that earnings were failing to keep pace with prices.
  • (15) Chris Pavlou, former vice chairman of Laiki, told Channel 4 news that Anastasiades was given little option by the troika but to accept the draconian terms, which force savers to take a hit for the first time in the fifth bailout of a eurozone country.
  • (16) Meanwhile the Brooklyn Nets, who have been dealing with nothing but bad news since the start of the regular season, will be without Paul Pierce for 2-4 weeks, also due to a right hand fracture.
  • (17) The New York Times also alleged that the Met had not passed full details about how many people were victims of the illegal practice to the CPS because it has a history of cooperation with News International titles.
  • (18) Her black persona unravelled this week when Ruthanne and Larry Dolezal, a couple named on her Montana birth certificate as her biological parents, told Spokane’s KREM 2 News that her ancestry was German and Czech, with traces of Native American.
  • (19) Prof Bryan Williams, chair of the working party that developed the chart, said: "Many changes in healthcare are incremental but this new National Early Warning Score (News) has the potential to transform patient safety in our hospitals and improve patient outcomes.
  • (20) This is welcome news but it needs to be borne in mind that the manufacturing sector is still far from racing ahead and serious doubts remain about the strength of demand for manufactured goods over the medium term, particularly once stimulative measures start being withdrawn.

Reportage


Definition:

  • (n.) SAme as Report.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Guardian’s Jason Burke ( @burke_jason ) has insights into AQAP and al-Qaida in his frequent reportage for the Guardian.
  • (2) June 19, 2014 7.39pm BST How Nouri al-Maliki fell out of favour with the US Here's new reportage and analysis from the Guardian's Martin Chulov ( @martinchulov ) and Spencer Ackerman ( @attackerman ).
  • (3) While the opening tranche of "tales" derive from the work of forgotten contemporary humorists, the pieces of London reportage that he began to contribute to the Morning Chronicle in autumn 1834 ("Gin Shops", "Shabby-Genteel People", "The Pawnbroker's Shop") are like nothing else in pre-Victorian journalism: bantering and hard-headed by turns, hectic and profuse, falling over themselves to convey every last detail of the metropolitan front-line from which Dickens sent back his dispatches.
  • (4) The decision to shoot in monochrome, which is all too often linked to a photographic nostalgia for the heady days of reportage, is fully justified here.
  • (5) This study examined the effects of gender, situation, and characteristics of witnesses in the perception and reportage of child abuse.
  • (6) Opinion plays a prominent role at the front of the book and a section called Zoom takes readers into more in-depth stories, analysis of big events, reportage and news features.
  • (7) In one sense, it is a far more powerful reminder of the refugees’ humanity than any journalist’s reportage.
  • (8) A mix of memoir, reportage and interviews, Viking hopes it will reveal the extent to which risking millions every day can be addictive, as well as explaining the inner workings of the market from short selling to bonds swaps.
  • (9) I’ve never had all my children with me at the same time.” This reportage was produced with funding from the WK Kellogg Foundation, as part of a research project on invisible discriminations by the Journalism on Public Policy Program at the Center for Research and Teaching in Economics ( cide ), in Mexico City.
  • (10) Steeped in Russia , Crankshaw seems always to have mixed reportage with espionage, attracting the attention of both the CIA and the KGB.
  • (11) Soon, however, Sniffin' Glue was offering grass-roots reportage on British punk's first flowering, while also lambasting the Clash for signing to the major label CBS.
  • (12) You can see this, I think, in the way Mackay, Whelan and Balotelli’s remarks are referred to in reportage as involving racism and antisemitism.
  • (13) In one sense [hyperobjects] are abstractions,” he notes, “in another they are ferociously, catastrophically real.” We exist in an ongoing bio­diversity crisis – but register that crisis as an ambient hum of guilt, easily faded out Creative non-fiction, and especially reportage, has adapted most quickly to this “distributed” aspect of the Anthropocene.
  • (14) They are not reportage or photojournalism, but sit somewhere between a street fashion shoot and a series of well-taken snapshots.
  • (15) Here was the studio of a pioneering “youth TV” current affairs programme called Network 7 – a somewhat chaotic mix of reportage and stunts, broadcast Sunday mornings on Channel 4.
  • (16) Passages that read like wild satirical exaggeration solidify, on second glance, into clear-eyed reportage.
  • (17) "My greatest challenges come with writing novels that deal with social realities, such as The Garlic Ballads , not because I'm afraid of being openly critical of the darker aspects of society, but because heated emotions and anger allow politics to suppress literature and transform a novel into reportage of a social event.
  • (18) Michelle Stanistreet, the organisation's general secretary said: "[It] will close down reportage on civil proceedings and court cases.
  • (19) It was more ambitious than A Fortunate Man, an attempt to describe in verse, fiction, reportage, photographs and readymade images the lives of Europe’s 22 million migrant workers.
  • (20) Findings might explain discrepancies between studies of the incidence of child abuse and reportage of it.

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