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 November 4, Anthony Adler, “Hitting the Skids”, in Chicago Reader‎:
      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, →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.
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