A curated collection of journalistic reporting essays by various well known authors:

Judgment on the Witch Walpurga Hausmännin (1587) - The House of Fugger
Pictures from Italy (1846) (Excerpt) - Charles Dickens
Watercress Girl (1861-62) - Henry Mayhew
Ten Days in a Mad-House (1888) (Excerpt) - Nellie Bly
How the Other Half Lives, Pauperism in the Tenements (1890) (Excerpt) - Jacob A. Riis
Specimen Days. A Night Battle (1892) (Excerpt) - Walt Whitman
Newspaper Days (1931) (Excerpt) - Theodore Dreiser
Burned to Death (1893) - Theodore Dreiser
When Man Falls, Crowd Gathers (1894) - Stephen Crane
A Red Record (1895) (Excerpt) - Ida B. Wells-Barnett
The Death of Rodriguez (1897) - Richard Harding Davis
Wounds in the Rain (1899) (Excerpt) - Stephen Crane
The People of the Abyss (1903) (Excerpt) - Jack London
Twelve Seconds That Changed the World (1903) - Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
The Triangle Shirtwaist Fire (1911) - William G. Shepherd
With the Allies (1914) (Excerpt) - Richard Harding Davis
Verdun Belle (1918) - Alexander Woollcott
Death in the Dust (1936) - John Steinbeck
Dachau (1945) - Martha Gellhorn
The Everglades: River of Grass (1947) - Marjory Stoneman Douglas
A Mule Cortege for the Apostle of the Poor (1968) - Alistair Cooke
Hell's Angels (1966) (Excerpt) - Hunter S. Thompson
Snooze, You Lose (1980) - Wayne Worcester