Suat Derviş (1905-1972) is well known for novels she wrote in the 1920s-1960s, in which she tackled issues of class and gender through the lens of girls and women on the margins of urban Turkish society. Many of these novels have been reprinted in Turkish in recent decades and have contributed to Derviş’s “rediscovery” in feminist Turkish literary studies. Yet Suat Derviş was also a skilled and recognized journalist, trained in Berlin, Germany and widely published the early republican period. As a freelance journalist she covered international events such as the Lausanne Conference in 1922-23 and the International Alliance of Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship’s 1935 Congress in Istanbul. But, her journalistic portfolio was unique because she wrote lengthy investigative stories related to Turkish urban life that often foregrounded “the voices” of those she interviewed. Through producing series of articles on themes such as the experiences and conditions of women’s and children’s lives, public health, or the types of homes and neighborhoods the poor lived in, she chronicled daily life in more depth than other Turkish journalists of the same era. Analyzing the content and rhetorical devices of Derviş’s reportage, my paper highlights that she drew upon narratives of dislocation and vulnerability of women and children to pierce the illusion of populism advanced by Kemalists in Ataturk’s 1930s. Through her non-fiction writing, she openly advocated for greater state involvement in providing for the welfare of marginalized members of society. Derviş’s journalistic voice was curtailed after 1944, when she and her husband, Reşat Fuat Baraner, leader of the banned Turkish Communist Party, were arrested for their political allegiances and activities. Yet she had firmly established herself not only as an important novelist, but also as a reporter willing to critique the limitations of the state and elite society. In this paper, I examine Derviş’s body of reportage in Cumhuriyet, as well as freelance pieces she published in other outlets such as Yeni Edebiyat and Tan. In addition, I draw upon several secondary analyses of Derviş’s life and published interviews of Derviş in her later life to illustrate the importance of Derviş’s contributions to Turkish journalism and political dissent in the early republic.