the.com/foreign correspondence
explaining a country to people who will never visit it, before you understand it yourself.
means the journalism of reporting from abroad, translating another nation's chaos into a headline your editor will run.
from born with the telegraph, when papers realized a war reported in three weeks was old news, and started paying people to live where the story was and wire it home fast.
golden agecold war era funded bureaus in nearly every capital
modern shrinkagemost us papers closed foreign bureaus after 2000
fixer economylocal fixers do the real work, rarely bylined
danger paywar zones literally add a salary premium
for instance
martha gellhorn — covered every major conflict from spain 1937 to panama 1989
christiane amanpour — made her name reporting bosnia for cnn in the 1990s
marie colvin — killed reporting from homs, syria, in 2012