foreign correspondent
Noun: A journalist who is stationed in and reports from a country other than their own. Their primary role is to gather news, provide analysis, and send dispatches (reports and commentary) about events in that foreign country for publication or broadcast by news media in their home country.
A "foreign correspondent" is a specific type of journalist. The term emphasizes the correspondent's physical location abroad and their focus on international news for a domestic audience. * The newspaper's foreign correspondent in Tokyo filed a detailed report on the economic summit. * She worked for a decade as a foreign correspondent, covering conflicts across the Middle East. * The network relies on its team of foreign correspondents to provide on-the-ground perspectives from major capitals.
- The role is often contrasted with a domestic correspondent or a local reporter.
- The phrase can imply a degree of prestige, risk, or specialization within journalism, as correspondents often report on complex political, economic, or conflict situations.
- "To serve as a foreign correspondent" or "to be posted as a foreign correspondent" are common collocations describing the assignment.
- Correspondent (n): A more general term for a journalist who reports on a particular subject or from a particular place, which may or may not be foreign.
- War Correspondent (n): A journalist who reports specifically from conflict zones. A war correspondent is often a type of foreign correspondent.
- Bureau Chief (n): The head of a news organization's office in a foreign location; a bureau chief is often also a foreign correspondent.
- Stringer (n): A freelance journalist who is not a full-time employee but is paid per story, often used by news organizations to supplement reports from their full-time foreign correspondents.
- International reporter
- Overseas correspondent
- Foreign journalist
- Foreign news reporter
- Domestic correspondent
- Local reporter
- Home news editor
- "To file a dispatch": This is a classic action associated with a foreign correspondent, meaning to send a news report from the field to the home office.
- The correspondent filed her dispatch just before the communication lines went down.
- "Dateline": The line at the beginning of a news article stating the place and date of origin. A foreign correspondent's reports will have a foreign dateline.
- The article carried a dateline reading "BEIRUT, Lebanon —"
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a journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast
