The book is well written, but Smith's reportorial style is a little too bland and workmanlike to make a real impact.

For the last decade, viewers of New Jersey Network news programs have become accustomed to Ms. King's face - its sharp features, penetrating brown eyes and dirty-blond hair -and to her no-nonsense reportorial style.

A modest-looking film with a reportorial style that escalated slowly and stunningly, it achieved an unforgettably moving vision of a reluctant pilgrim and his spiritual journey.

Despite its insights, "Watson and DNA" is flawed by its reportorial style, its excessive use of quotations and the inclusion of irrelevant anecdotes to fill the gaps when the scientific action flags.

The book is beautifully written, with a reportorial style all its own.

And it is a whirlwind life, the life of the moment, with neither past nor future, and certainly without thought of any style but reportorial style, and that certainly is not literature.

During Ayres's overlong account of his formative years as a young coward, he writes of a journalism teacher in London whose reportorial style captures "the matey first-person persona of a pub raconteur."

This is a gripping piece of work, beautifully written in a reportorial style that is at once dispassionate and sensitive.

What amazed me was the aura of mystery and melancholy Bolaño created, a sort of microclimate reminiscent (as was the terse, reportorial style) of Babel and Kafka, a weather that obliterated everything outside the story.

But characteristically, he found something to use, and, working in a relatively reportorial, documentary style, continued to lay the foundations for his last, and most lasting statement.