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reportorial, a. orig. U.S.|rɛpəˈtɔərɪəl|
[irreg. f. report v. or reporter: see -orial.]
Consisting of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, reporters.
185882nd Anniv. Amer. Independence (Boston, Mass.) 6 As far as reportorial observation could extend, the best possible temper prevailed. 1860in Worcester, The reportorial corps of a newspaper. 1883Cent. Mag. July 374 The reportorial method is affecting the younger writers. 1890Universal Rev. Sept. 88 Every petty local occurrence..is magnified by the reportorial lens. 1926[see dated ppl. a. 3]. 1949E. B. White Let. 20 Nov. (1976) 315 Boyer wrote..some reportorial articles that experienced editors..regarded as thoroughly non-objective. 1955Bull. Atomic Sci. Sept. 249/1 The stifling of routine reportorial inquiry. 1977M. Lipper in Bond & McLeod Newslett. to Newspapers i. 73 This is especially striking when one keeps in mind..the role of coffeehouses or clubs as forerunners of modern reportorial staffs.
For def. read: Consisting of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, reporters; also, written in the style of a (newspaper) report. (Further examples.)
a1961C. P. Aiken in Webster s.v., It is too topical, too transitory, too reportorial. 1977Fortune Dec. 72/1 The book is..reportorial: a final section describes the efforts of communications officers at the Bank of America to overthrow the old ways. 1989Boston Globe 15 Aug. 60/2 Many of the stories are strictly reportorial, saving us from tedious, older-but-wiser morals. |