reportorial

English

Etymology

From report(er) +‎ -orial.

Adjective

reportorial (comparative more reportorial, superlative most reportorial)

1. (chiefly US) Of, pertaining to or characteristic of a reporter. [from 19th c.]
   • 1988 August 20, Chris Reed, “The English 'Strip-tique'”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 6, page 11:

     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 November 4, Anthony Adler, “Hitting the Skids”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

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

   • 2017, Dean Koontz, The Silent Corner, page 28:

     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.

   • 2021 March 19, James Fallows, “Can Humans Be Replaced by Machines?”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN:

     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.