Susie Orbach

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or radio reportage is what a public intellectual does. But it's not merely about being oppositional, because that's too negative.

English Psychologist

Ann Nocenti

Comics shouldn't be 'tools' for anyone's agenda except for the characters. And I am speaking only of super hero action comics. I love many of the alternative comics that are like journalistic stories. Documentary comics, a mix of reportage and fiction. Those are just great.

American Journalist

Pankaj Mishra

Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

Indian Novelist

Lee Gutkind

To reconstruct stories and scenes, nonfiction writers must conduct vigorous and responsible research. In fact, narrative requires more research than traditional reportage, for writers cannot simply tell what they learn and know; rather, they must show it.

American Writer

Clarissa Pinkola Estes

Than Shwe ordered the confiscation of all cell phones and laptops and computers so no reportage could come out of Burma. It seemed clear that a demon, something diabolical, rather than something compassionate and human was in charge of Burma.

American Poet

Steven Rodney McQueen

Film is important; it can be more than reportage or a novel - it creates images people have never seen before, never imagined they'd see, maybe because they needed someone else to imagine them.

American Director

Sucheta Dalal

In an ideal world, judges are not supposed to read or be influenced by media reports. But it is difficult to ignore television news which does not distinguish between reportage and comment.

Billy Bragg

So, in some ways, the political songs tend to be a bit more like reportage, whereas the love songs tend to be like novels, you can pick them up off the shelf and go into them any time.

British Musician

Will Self

Many of my works fall into the category of 'Zeitgeist novels'. Yet I hope that they aren't only reportage, but also attempts to convey the sense of the present to the future.

English Author

Annie Leibovitz

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

American Photographer

Reportage often includes vivid descriptions that create a realistic portrayal.

Realistic Detail

Sometimes reportage reflects the reporter's perspective or emotions, despite aiming for objectivity.

Subjective Tone

Credible reportage relies on accurate sources for information.

Source Importance

Reportage can shape public opinion; responsible media strives for unbiased presentation.

Media Influence

Reportage can vary from focusing on one aspect to comprehensive coverage of an event.

Scope of Coverage

Reportage often includes photographs or videos to complement the textual content.

Visual Elements

 you are intimately familiar with and a place that you can go back to again and again and again. In South Africa, I had a pretty sexy backyard. I mean, I was lucky. And my first, sort of, real reportage story was about great white sharks.