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.