The Foreign Correspondent
Comprehensive news coverage of another country is best achieved by basing a staff journalist–a foreign correspondent–on the spot. The job is usually considered the most glamorous of all reporting assignments. Living in another country as the representative of an overseas news organisation carries with it social as well as professional prestige, and a correspondent who spends some time abroad builds up contacts and sources which ensure that a steady flow of news big and small is sent home.
In countries with dictatorships or totalitarian political regimes, resident correspondents of foreign news organisations are barely tolerated rather than welcomed. Restrictions are placed on their movements and what they can report, ...
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