Importantly, it is the reporter specifically, who is so characteristic of modernity, according to Homberg, and not any of the other professions also involved in the booming newspaper business around 1900—including the journalist more broadly, the editor, or the newspaper owners, even though all these are important representatives of the modern world as well (and also receive some discussion in Reporter-Streifzüge). According to Homberg, it is in travel and war that turn-of-the-century reportage reveals its characteristics most succinctly, especially its tension between factual observation and subjective self-referentiality. ...Homberg's reading of colonialist travelogues like Nellie Bly's Around the World in 72 Days (1890) as parallel to the contemporaneous reports on the strangeness and misery in the outskirts of the domestic metropolises (Homberg speaks of Binnenexotisierung in this context; 170), could have paid more attention to the rather striking differences that characterize Bly's representations of disadvantaged white women at home on the one hand and disadvantaged people of color during her travels in Asia on the other hand. ...Homberg presents a convincing argument for the importance of the reporter for turn-of-the-century culture, and his book provides readers—both those interested in literary forms and those interested in history—with a wealth of well-researched case studies.