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/fˈɔrən kˌɔrəspˈɑndənt/ Listen

Foreign correspondent

noun

A journalist who sends news reports and commentary from a foreign country for publication or broadcast.

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"Foreign correspondent" Quotes from Famous Books

... of war are not all on the battlefield. The Cuban campaign wrecked a promising career as a foreign correspondent which I had been building up for some ten or fifteen years with toilsome effort. It was for a Danish newspaper I wrote with much approval, but when the war came, they did not take the same view of things that I did, and fell to suppressing or mutilating my letters, whereupon our connection ...

— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis

... through how many, and what very suspicious hands, this story has arrived to them, without the possibility, as I have shown, of tracing it back to any decidedly authentic source, after all;—to any better authority, according to their own showing, than that of an unnamed and unknown foreign correspondent;—and likewise how strong an interest, in every way, those who have hitherto imposed on them, have in keeping up the imposture. Let them, in short, show themselves as ready to detect the cheats, and despise the fables of politicians ...

— Historic Doubts Relative To Napoleon Buonaparte • Richard Whately

Words linked to "Foreign correspondent" : newspaperman, pressman, newspaperwoman, newswriter, correspondent