rearported

Rearported is a neologism used in some niche discussions to describe the practice of reporting information from a downstream or rear-facing perspective within a system, process, or narrative. There is no widely accepted definition, and it is not listed in major dictionaries.

Its etymology is a blend of the words rear and reported, suggesting both position (at the rear) and action (to report). The term appears sporadically in informal online writing and has not become established in formal disciplines.

Proposed meanings vary by field. In data engineering or systems monitoring, rearported reporting refers to summarizing outcomes at the end of a pipeline—focusing on final state metrics, error counts, and throughput rather than intermediate steps. In narrative theory or journalism, rearported voice denotes reporting that begins from the consequences of events before describing the causes, or a retrospective framing that emphasizes results. In quality assurance, rearported tests or results emphasize verification performed by downstream checks rather than upstream or component-level tests.

Examples: A project dashboard may provide a rearported summary listing end-to-end completion rate and final error rate, rather than listing per-step failures. A retrospective article on a failed product launch might present the timeline as rearported, starting with the outcomes and then tracing back to earlier decisions.

See also: retrospective reporting, downstream reporting, post hoc analysis, narrative framing.