The phrase "a kind of reporting" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when describing a specific type or style of reporting, often to indicate that it does not fit traditional definitions.
Example: "The article presented a kind of reporting that focused more on personal narratives than on hard facts."
Alternatives: "a form of reporting" or "a type of reporting".
"I'm in the casbah, live and direct, and people are bleeding," he said, and in cars and homes around the country, people listened to a kind of reporting they had never before heard.
But all the technical accommodations can make it easy to overlook that the essential project is something we don't see much of anymore, a kind of reporting Paul calls "slow journalism" — the process of reporting at "a human pace of three miles an hour".
A kind of reporting, a style of 'seeing' and 'hearing' that would later seriously influence me, though I was unaware of it then, for all my 'formal' writing, the stuff that I published and carefully typed, was more or less fictional".
We've lost one of those who invented a kind of reporting we today take for granted.
Oborne sees this process as "effectively a move to a kind of secondary reporting" in which journalists no longer concentrate on reporting events in their raw form but, rather, as mediated and interpreted by ministerial aides and "spin doctors".
Elected by the cadets themselves, it had no authority to punish, but acted as a kind of grand jury, reporting offenses to the commandant.
The reports are not public, but in some cases the team will issue a kind of hybrid report, if it believes that the public might be educated by its findings.
Offill's novel offers a kind of resistance report from within occupied territory.
Those indictments themselves served as a kind of "Mueller report," providing great detail concerning the Russian attacks on our election.
FiveThirtyEight's Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Perry Bacon Jr. nothathat Mueller's court filings so far amount to a kind of public report.
The book I ultimately produced, "Under a Grudging Sun," turned out to be a kind of journalistic report on two very troubled years of Haitian history.
