If you want to read 3,000 to 5,000-word reportage pieces exposing the terrible conditions in UN camps in Darfur, the plight of Iranian Kurds or refugees fleeing South Korea you might not expect to go to a Mail on Sunday supplement. Yet in the paper’s men’s magazine, Live, its Reportage section is publishing original journalism of the type these days associated with The New Yorker and Vanity Fair.

It is journalism that is also winning awards – in June, a feature by Jonathan Green into the exploitation of young African men falsely promised Premier League fame, won the Newspaper Supplement category in Amnesty International’s Media Awards.

And the popular features prize at the 2007 One World Media Awards was won by Damien Lewis for his piece from Darfur. He exposed the terrible conditions in the UN camps that meant people would rather walk thousands of miles to the mountains than go to them.