Literary Reportage – reportage-style observations, with personal experience, perception, and anecdotal

evidence, in a non-fiction form of literature

Reportage - sometimes refers to the total body of media coverage of a particular topic or event,
including news reporting and analysis:
- is also a term for an eye-witness genre of journalism: an individual journalist's report of news,
especially when witnessed firsthand, distributed through the media. This style of reporting is
often characterized by travel and careful observation.
Literary Journalism – it is fact driven and requires research and often interviews.
- Called immersion journalism because it requires a closer more active relationship to the subject
and to the people the literary journalist is exploring
- Piece should be well researched, focus on a brief period of time and concentrate on what is
happening outside of the writer’s small circle of personal experience and feelings
Types
1. Print journalism: also covers cultural aspects of society such as arts and entertainment.
Photojournalist often paired with a print journalist who takes photographs to tell the story using a
medium of photographs.
2. Investigative Journalism: Many a time the investigators may find themselves in situations where the
person is recalcitrant and not willing to share the information. These are the situations where
investigators have to show their talents and gather the original information for the presentation of facts
to the public.
3. Broadcast Journalism: When we hear the word broadcast the first thing that may come to you
naturally would be the famous TV news anchors, like Ravish Kumar and Arnab Goswami. Broadcast
journalism, however, rather not just that is in front of the camera but also behind the camera. There
obviously goes a lot of research before printing or broadcasting anything. Some job profiles that fall
under Broadcast Journalism are local news anchor jobs, traffic and weather reporters, and production
crew.
4. Reviews Journalism: Review writing is rather exciting, here the writer gets to state the facts about
any event, object, happening or any person and then present his viewpoint on the same as a summary
of his entire research or findings. It is based on research and experience of the writer.
5. Columns Journalism: are based primarily on the personality of the author, allowing him or her to
write about subjects in a personal style. Column writers can take a humorous approach, or specialise in a
particular subject area or topic. It’s important for columnists to develop their own voice that is
recognisable by their readership. Columnists can interpret events or issues or write about their own
personal experiences or thoughts. Columns are usually published weekly.
6. Feature Writing: Feature writing provides scope, depth, and interpretation of trends, events, topics or
people. Features aim not only to thoroughly explore a topic by conducting interviews with numerous
experts or the key people involved, but to offer a previously unseen perspective on an event, issue, or
person. Feature writing commonly wins prestigious awards when it manages to achieve this goal.
Features usually have the highest word count of all journalism types.
Traditional Journalism: Traditional journalistic practices focus on maintaining objectivity, checking up on
governmental officials, and neutrally providing information to audiences. These characteristics have
defined the dominant way of writing and reporting the news for several decades.
-aims to inform and educate, hold people and authority to account, document and interpret
development and changes. Traditional journalist focuses on maintaining objectivity, checking up on
governmental officials, and neutrally providing information to audiences.