The phrase "affair was reported" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing an event or situation that has been communicated or made known, often in a news context.
Example: "The affair was reported in several major newspapers, drawing public attention and scrutiny."
Alternatives: "incident was disclosed" or "event was announced".
Some still nurse wounds from the way the expenses affair was reported, believing it was done in the most cynical and corrosive way possible to undermine politics.
On Friday, after word of the affair was reported, Mr. Dervis issued a statement through Brookings saying, in part, "I have not been, and will not be, a candidate" for the I.M.F.
The young stars involved in the affair were reported to have returned to Domenech in tears to apologise.
The British media remained deferential to the monarchy, and no stories of the affair were reported in the domestic press, but foreign media widely reported their relationship.
"The high commissioner made clear the British government's deep concern at what the minister for religious affairs was reported to have said," a Foreign Office spokesman said.
"We shall not hesitate to take positive action to have Hong Kong, Kowloon and New Territories liberated," Liao Chengzhi, a senior Chinese official in charge of Hong Kong affairs, was reported to have said in 1960, referring to the areas under British administration that would later be returned to China.
"The high commissioner, Robert Brinkley, made clear to the Pakistan ministry of foreign affairs the British government's deep concern about what the minister of religious affairs is reported to have said," a Foreign Office spokeswoman said.
Why does a son's service as an enlisted man create an appearance of conflict (as you concluded), but not one's birth in the religion espoused by one side in the affairs being reported?
Often it is held that first-person introspective reports are basic because we have some "privileged" access to the states of affairs being reported.
Further muddying the affair were reports that Trayvon was in the Orlando area only after being suspended from his school in Miami for suspected marijuana possession.
But the independent panel's report said a "more plausible" explanation was that Terry was "angry" at both the way the game was going as well as Ferdinand's taunts about an affair Terry was reported to have had with the ex-partner of former team-mate Wayne Bridge.
