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Introduction
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toitsinitiator,founderandspiritusmovens,MarekMiller,journalisminits
entirety,andreportageinparticular,isacognitivetool.Inordertotackle
agiventopicfrommanypointsofview,theLRcultivatesthetraditionof
collaborativeworkontext,aswellasmultimediastorytellingtechniques.Inthe
imageandlikenessofLRpractice,uponwhichIwillelaborateinamoment,
thisbook,too,isacollaboration.Authorsconsiderdifferentaspectsand
theoreticalissueswithinthefieldofinterestandpracticeoftheLR.Andso,
thetextco-writtenbythefounderofthelaboratory,MarekMiller,andwriter
PiotrWojciechowski,“LaboratoryofReportage:AnOutlineofResearch
Issues,”isaretrospectiveconsiderationoftheessenceoftheindividual,their
perspectiveandvision,whiletheessaybyProf.ZygmuntZiątek,“Reportage
asLiterature.GenealogyofMarekMiller’sLaboratoryofReportageandits
Place,”placesLRpracticeinthehistoryofPolishreportage.
TheLRkeepsthinkingaboutitsownidentity,andasaresultofthat
process,itspublicationsundergoanumberofalterations.Methodology,as
wellasprojectscompletedattheLaboratory,constitutebothapracticaland
atheoreticalanswertomediaaccelerationandtheaccelerationofthereportage
genre.
Fromtheverybeginningofitsexistence,theLRwasinterestedin
epistemologicalfoundationsofjournalisticpracticeand,throughthem,inits
cognitivepotential.Itresearchestheissuesofform,theinfluenceofreportage
oncreatingandsustainingademocraticcommunity.Italsopondersthe
futureofthegenreinaworldmarkedbyitsconstantcommercialization.Thus
theLRisononehandmostlyastudio,etymologicallydedicatedtoreportage
coverageofissuesimportantforoursociety,ahotbedfortexts.Butonthe
otherhand,itistheplacewherejournalisticmethodologyisintellectually
andscientificallyforgedanditsveryfoundationsareproblematized.Piotr
WojciechowskitacklesthisdualityoftheLRinhisessay“School-Community
-AnIslandofEthos(ReflectionsofaTeacherabouttheLaboratoryof
Reportage),”whileKrzysztofMuszyńskiwonders,mutatismutandis,about
communityasatopicofjournalisticstatementsinhistext“TheSpaceof
CommunityintheProjectsoftheLaboratoryofReportage.”
ThehistoryoftheLaboratoryofReportageextendsto1980whenthe
ReportageWorkshop(PracowniaReportażu)wasestablishedinŁódź.Ithad
beenstronglymarkedbyanexperimentalapproachtothegenre.One
exampleisatextcomposedbyfivereporterspriortotheactualweekit
reportedon:“BędzietydzieńwmieścieŁodzi”(AWeektoComeintheCity
ofŁódź);another,awell-known,widelyremarkedbook,Ktotuwpuścił
dziennikarzy(WhoLettheJournalistsIn)publishedin1985,tellsthetaleof
thebirthofSolidarityfromthepointofviewofshipyardemployeesonstrike