Reportage Press
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In reaction to the lack of quality books on foreign affairs, Reportage Press was established in 2007 by two former journalists: Charlotte Eagar
Charlotte Eagar
Charlotte Eagar is a foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and travel writer. Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, Harpers & Queen, and The Times Magazine, she has written stories from such diverse...
, a foreign correspondent who has covered conflicts such as the Iraq
Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
and Balkan
Yugoslav wars
The Yugoslav Wars were a series of wars, fought throughout the former Yugoslavia between 1991 and 1995. The wars were complex: characterized by bitter ethnic conflicts among the peoples of the former Yugoslavia, mostly between Serbs on the one side and Croats and Bosniaks on the other; but also...
wars; and Rosie Whitehouse
Rosie Whitehouse
Rosie Whitehouse is a journalist, writer and founder of the publishing house Reportage Press.Whitehouse studied International History at the London School of Economics and took up a career at the BBC World Service....
, a former BBC journalist. They believe these books are newsworthy and want to publish books "that mainstream houses shun in favour of ghosted showbiz autobiographies and TV spin-offs".
At the beginning of 2008, Reportage was named as one of the 'New lists to watch' by The Bookseller
The Bookseller
The Bookseller is a British magazine reporting news on the publishing industry. Neill Denny is editor-in-chief of the weekly print edition of the magazine, while Philip Jones is deputy editor, having recently been promoted from the position of managing editor of the Bookseller.com...
. All the titles published have received media coverage, something Eager and Whitehouse put down to "the newsworthy content, and their ability to get books out quickly."
Reportage Press books also have a charitable aspect: a percentage of the profits go towards a charity related to the book. For example, a percentage of profits from Denise Affonço's To The End Of Hell go to the Documenation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), where a scholarship has been set up in the name of Denise Affonço
Denise Affonço
Denise Affonço is an author who wrote about her terrible sufferings under the Khmer Rouge in a powerful memoir To The End Of Hell with an introduction by Jon Swain. She was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to a Vietamese mother and French father and grew up in the peaceful years before all out war...
's nine-year-old daughter Jeannie, who starved to death in 1976 under the Khmer Rouge
Khmer Rouge
The Khmer Rouge literally translated as Red Cambodians was the name given to the followers of the Communist Party of Kampuchea, who were the ruling party in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979, led by Pol Pot, Nuon Chea, Ieng Sary, Son Sen and Khieu Samphan...
regime.
Authors
- Denise AffonçoDenise AffonçoDenise Affonço is an author who wrote about her terrible sufferings under the Khmer Rouge in a powerful memoir To The End Of Hell with an introduction by Jon Swain. She was born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia to a Vietamese mother and French father and grew up in the peaceful years before all out war...
- Tom Blass
- Rob CrillyRob CrillyRob Crilly is a British/Irish freelance journalist and author. He was educated at The Judd School, Tonbridge, and read Natural Sciences at Downing College, Cambridge....
- Magdalene de Lancey
- Charlotte EagarCharlotte EagarCharlotte Eagar is a foreign correspondent, investigative journalist, and travel writer. Whilst working for a variety of British newspapers and magazines, including The Observer, the Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, Harpers & Queen, and The Times Magazine, she has written stories from such diverse...
- Sergei GolitsynSergei GolitsynSergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn — 7 November 1989) was a Russian-Soviet writer.-Biography:Sergei Mikhailovich Galitsyn was born on 14 March 1909 at an estate in the Tula guberniya. His father was prince Mikhail Vladimirovich Galitsyn ,a member of the powerful Russian Golitsyn family, and his...
- Tim JudahTim JudahTim Judah is a front line reporter for The Economist and author. A graduate of the London School of Economics and of the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University he worked for the BBC before becoming the Balkans correspondent for The Times and The Economist. During the Kosovo war he...
- Justin Kerr-SmileyJustin Kerr-SmileyJustin Kerr-Smiley is a journalist for Associated Press Television News in London, England and author of the novel Under The Sun. Educated at the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, he has reported from Northern Ireland, the Balkans and South America....
- John Langdon-DaviesJohn Langdon-DaviesJohn Eric Langdon-Davies was a British author and journalist. He was a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War and the Russo-Finnish war. As a result of his experiences in Spain, he founded the Foster Parents' Scheme for refugee children in Spain, now called Plan International. He was...
- Adam LeBorAdam LeBorAdam LeBor is a British author and journalist based in Budapest, Hungary. He has worked as a foreign correspondent since 1991, covering the collapse of Communism and the Yugoslav wars and since working in over 30 different countries. He currently reports from Central Europe for The Times and...
- Joris LuyendijkJoris LuyendijkJoris Luyendijk is a Dutch non-fiction author, news correspondent and talk show host.Joris Luyendijk studied in Kansas, Amsterdam, and Cairo. He earned his Master's degree equivalent "doctoraal" degree in Cairo...
- David Charles MannersDavid Charles MannersDavid Charles Manners is a British writer and co-founder of Sarvashubhamkara, a charity that provides medical care, education and human contact for socially excluded individuals and communities on the Indian subcontinent...
- Christopher Othen
- Oliver PooleOliver Poole (journalist)Oliver Poole is a British journalist and author who has had articles published by The Independent, The Guardian, BBC News and The Observer. He has also published two books detailing his experiences of the war in Iraq; Black Knights: On the Bloody Road to Baghdad and Red Zone: Five Bloody Years in...
- Révérien Rurangwa
- William Stirling
- Reginald Thompson
- Annabel VenningAnnabel VenningAnnabel Venning is a British author and journalist. She was educated at Sherborne School For Girls and University College, Durham...
- Vitali VitalievVitali VitalievVitali Vitaliev is a Ukrainian-born journalist and writer who has worked in Russia, England, Scotland, Australia and Ireland.-Biography:...
- Rosie WhitehouseRosie WhitehouseRosie Whitehouse is a journalist, writer and founder of the publishing house Reportage Press.Whitehouse studied International History at the London School of Economics and took up a career at the BBC World Service....
- Ros Wynne-JonesRos Wynne-JonesRos Wynne-Jones is a journalist and author who has had articles published in The Guardian and The Mirror amongst others, and is currently Senior Feature Writer for the Daily Mirror. Ros has covered stories ranging from the HIV crisis in southern Africa to the Darfuri refugee camps inside Eastern...