Correspondents

War Correspondents

War correspondents provide first-hand accounts of military conflict for dissemination to the public. The literature of war correspondents manifests a decidedly western focus. War correspondents originated during the imperial age, when British newspapers sought first-hand accounts of distant continental and colonial wars, and became an institution during major nineteenth- and twentieth-century wars. Newspapers originated the

Foreign Correspondents

The “classic” foreign correspondent had become an identifiable occupation by the second half of the nineteenth century, supporting an increasing need of European and US newspapers to cover overseas military and civilian developments. Ever since, foreign correspondents have been considered an elite among news professionals. The numbers of “classic” foreign correspondents reached a peak worldwide