"Reportage" presents a range of eyewitness accounts, diaries, letters, journalism, video transcripts, reviews, and essays, each of which represent a different facet of reporting. The anthology is split into thematic sections to encourage students to think about the process of reporting in a variety of media, not just journalism.

 

This book is part of a book series called Oxford Literature Resources .

There are 160 pages in this book. This book was published 1994 by Oxford University Press .

Geoff Barton is Deputy Headteacher at Thurston Upper School, Suffolk. He is an experienced author of school texts. Laurie Smith is a part-time Teacher and consultant at King's College, London and an experienced English examiner.

This book has the following chapters: EYEWITNESSES: DISASTERS AND WAR; The Eruption of Vesuvius; Explosion on Board Brunel's Great Eastern Steamship; The Titanic: From a Lifeboat; Memories of Waterloo; They May Be Watching You; War Begins at Home; London Burning; The House Fell About Our Ears!; Visiting Hiroshima; JOURNALISM AND JOURNALISTS; Give me Copy, Fast; Newspaper History; The Tragedy of the Titanic; The New World: True Freedom or a 'Peace of Terror'; Unreasonable Behaviour; An Interview with Kate Adie; Following the Shining Path; THE NEW JOURNALISM: LAW AND LAWLESSNESS; The New Journalism; The Detective; In Search of the Cocaine Pirates; Among the Thugs; What you Get when you cross a Chicken with a Rottweiler; SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT: DEATH ROW; Execution of the Queen of France; Denial of Tobacco Before Hanging; Rights of the Press at Executions; Fourteen Days in May; Where the law is not Blind to Colour (TV Review); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (TV Review); I Live on Death Row; Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz; Welcome to Hell: Part 1; Welcome to Hell: Part 2; MEDIA ISSUES; An Enemy of the People; Is That It?; The Challenge Disaster; Up and Down the City Road; Page 3 Letters; Hillsborough; Close Encounters with the Truth; Photojournalism Selection; ACTIVITIES; EXTENDED ACTIVITIES; WIDER READING