1. Timeliness: Reportage, like news communication, is good at conveying exciting events that have just happened in life to readers as quickly as possible. Reportage is welcomed by readers because it can grasp the pulse of the times, quickly reflect the reality that the masses care about and play the role of "literary light cavalry".
2. Documentary: Reportage cannot fabricate characters and plots like novels. It must take real people and things in real life as the description object, and photographic documentary is its important feature. Generally speaking, reportage should describe people and stories, but not any real people and stories can be the object of reportage description. Reportage should trace back to facts, but not all facts are worth reporting, but should be carefully selected and refined.
3. Literariness: Reportage can't be like news reports, it only has a synopsis of events, and it must create plump characters and vivid details.
Brief introduction of reportage
Reportage is a kind of prose, which is between news report and novel, and has the characteristics of news and literature. Reportage is a literary genre that uses literature and art to truly and timely reflect social life events and people's activities. Its basic characteristics are news, literature and politics. It is a style that deals with news topics by literary means.
Reportage describes advanced people who really exist in real life, reflects colorful life and exposes ugly things that people scoff at. Its characteristics are authenticity, artistic processing, visualization and lyricism.