基于近代新聞傳播業的發展而生成的報告文學,由其稱名,可知這是一種特殊的"報告的"文學。在很長時期內,新聞性、文學性和政論性等是它基本的文體特征。文隨世移,報告文學在與時應變的演化中,特別是在"全媒體"傳播時代,它本有的新聞性優勢明顯弱化,相應地,作家注重非虛構的敘事審美,以適應新的書寫對象和讀者新的接受期待。報告文學已由原先的"新聞文學",轉型為現在的作為敘事性非虛構寫作方式;由"報告的"文學,轉型為"文學的"報告。非虛構性、敘事性、文學性構成了新變后的報告文學文體的基本特征。

Reportage is a literary genre emerged out of modern journalism, featuring its blending of news, literature, and political commentary. With the changing of time, particularly due to the advent of the "Age of Omnimedia", its function to report news has significantly declined. Writers of reportage begin to develop its non-fictional narrative aesthetics, in order to accommodate themselves to the reader-objects and rising reader expectation. Reportage, as it stands, has shifted from its original style of reporting to a new genre of "literary reportage", a non-fictional narrative mode with distinctive features such as non-fiction, narrativity, and literariness.