foreign correspondent

noun

|Updated on: 8 Jun 2018

Definition of foreign correspondent

: a correspondent employed to send news or comment from a foreign country

Recent Examples of foreign correspondent from the Web

Lessenberry has previously worked as foreign correspondent and executive national editor for The Detroit News.

— brandon patterson, Detroit Free Press, "Wayne State's Jack Lessenberry quits Metro Times, steps away from Wayne State," 18 May 2018
Special to McClatchy Newspapers, Washington, D.C., bureau Andrew Malcolm is an author and veteran national and foreign correspondent covering politics since the 1960s.

— andrew malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle, "Malcolm: Without vibrant parties, our democracy flails in gridlock," 16 May 2018
O’Loughlin was an experienced foreign correspondent who worked across Southeast Asia before going on to document the historic days when South Vietnam’s cities fell to communist forces.

— Washington Post, "Longtime AP Sydney bureau chief Peter O’Loughlin dies at 78," 15 May 2018
Talbott remained interested in Russia, writing his master’s thesis on Mayakovsky, translating Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs and then becoming a foreign correspondent — and eventually a columnist — for Time magazine.

— keith gessen, New York Times, "The Quiet Americans Behind the U.S.-Russia Imbroglio," 8 May 2018
Instead, foreign correspondents huddled in their studios, speaking over the live feed from the British broadcasters.

— john jurgensen, WSJ, "‘The First Signs of Diana-Mania’: A BBC Producer Remembers 1981’s Royal Wedding," 24 Apr. 2018
Special to McClatchy Newspapers, Washington, D.C., bureau Andrew Malcolm is a veteran national and foreign correspondent.

— andrew malcolm, San Francisco Chronicle, "Trump’s Korea initiative is risky and unprecedented," 2 May 2018
As international interest wanes and foreign correspondents dwindle, Afghan outlets play an increasingly important role in holding power to account.

— olof blomqvist, Time, "Afghanistan's Media Is a Success Story. Two Attacks Show It Must Be Protected," 1 May 2018
Chozick began her travels with Hillary in 2007, when the Journal transferred her from her assignment as a foreign correspondent in Japan to the equally foreign environment of the Iowa caucuses.

— rachael combe, The Cut, "The Hillary Book That’s ‘Going to Piss Off’ Both Sides," 20 Apr. 2018

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