To more vividly convey that coloring, many newspapers encourage their reporters to wield the tools of the novelist, opening a story with an evocative detail, such as these leads, both from the front of today's New York Times : Ana Estela Lopeze dreamed of saving enough money to return to El Salvador to open a clothing store and build a three-bedroom house; and Rani, an illiterate woman from the washermen's caste, changed into her prettiest sari one recent morning.
Many newspapers encourage their reporters.
The work by Close in the 90's was far more provocative than his earlier works.