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Reportage Press was a publishing house specialising in "books on foreign affairs or set in foreign countries, or just books written from a stranger's view." [1]

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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, a foreign correspondent who has covered conflicts such as the Iraq War and Balkan wars; and Rosie Whitehouse, a former BBC journalist. [2] 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". [3]

At the beginning of 2008, Reportage was named as one of the 'New lists to watch' by The Bookseller . [4] 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." [4]

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 Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), where a scholarship has been set up in the name of Denise Affonço's nine-year-old daughter Jeannie, who starved to death in 1976 under the Khmer Rouge regime.

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References

  1. Reportage Press
  2. "Reportage grows its list". thebookseller.com. 13 December 2007. Archived from the original on 12 May 2009. Retrieved 6 February 2009.
  3. "Flak jacket to dressing gown, a reporter's progress". Reuters. 26 June 2007. Archived from the original on 16 July 2012.
  4. 1 2 theBookseller.com