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." 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 (born 1965) is a British people, British journalist, filmmaker, novelist, and communications consultant. She is co-producer and co-founder, with her husband William Stirling, of the ''Trojan Women Project'', combined psycho socia ...

, a foreign correspondent who has covered conflicts such as the Iraq War and

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wars; and

Rosie Whitehouse Rosie Whitehouse is a British historical researcher, journalist and author. Biography Whitehouse studied International History at the London School of Economics and took up a career at the BBC World Service. As a researcher, she has extensive ...

, 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''.theBookseller.com
/ref> 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 Documentation Centre of Cambodia (DC-Cam), where a scholarship has been set up in the name of

Denise Affonço Denise Affonço, born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is an author who wrote about her experience under the Khmer Rouge in ''To The End Of Hell,'' with an introduction by Jon Swain. She was born to a Vietnamese mother and French father and grew up before ...

's nine-year-old daughter Jeannie, who starved to death in 1976 under the

Khmer Rouge The Khmer Rouge (; ; km, ខ្មែរក្រហម, ; ) is the name that was popularly given to members of the Communist Party of Kampuchea (CPK) and by extension to the regime through which the CPK ruled Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. ...

regime.

Authors

*Tom Blass * Rob Crilly *Magdalene de Lancey *

Sergei Golitsyn Sergei Mikhailovich Golitsyn (russian: Серге́й Михайлович Голицын; — 7 November 1989) was a Russian writer. Biography Golitsyn was born on 14(1) March 1909 at an estate in the Tula guberniya. His father was prin ...

* Tim Judah *

Justin Kerr-Smiley Justin Kerr-Smiley (born 25 April 1965) is a writer and journalist who lives in London, England. Education Kerr-Smiley was educated at Ampleforth College and Newcastle University and completed post graduate studies in broadcast journalism in 19 ...

* John Langdon-Davies *

Adam LeBor Adam LeBor is a British author, journalist, writing coach and editorial trainer. Born in London in 1961, he worked as a foreign correspondent from 1991 for many years but is now based in London. Mostly based in Budapest, he also lived in Berlin a ...

Joris Luyendijk Joris Luyendijk (; born 30 December 1971) is a Dutch non-fiction author, anthropologist, news correspondent, and TV interviewer. Biography Joris Luyendijk was born on 30 December 1971 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands. He lived in Hilversum from t ...

David Charles Manners David Charles Manners (born 1965) is a British writer published in four languages. He is the co-founder of '' Sarvashubhamkara'', a charity that provides medical care, education and human contact to socially excluded individuals and communiti ...

*Daniela Norris *Christopher Othen * Oliver Poole *Révérien Rurangwa *William Stirling *Reginald Thompson *

Annabel Venning Annabel Venning is a British author and journalist. She was educated at Sherborne School for Girls and University College, Durham. After working at the '' Daily Mail'' in London, she left to write ''Following the Drum: The Lives of Army Wives an ...

Vitali Vitaliev Vitali Vitaliev (russian: Виталий Витальев) is a Ukrainian-born journalist and writer who has worked in Russia, the United Kingdom, Australia and Ireland. Biography Vitaliev was born in 1954 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. He graduated from ...

*Ros Wynne-Jones

References

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External links

Reportage Press Website
Book publishing companies of the United Kingdom Publishing companies established in 2007