foreign correspondent

American  

noun

1. a correspondent, as for a periodical, assigned to send back articles and news dispatches from a foreign country for publication.

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foreign correspondent British  

noun

1. journalism a reporter who visits or resides in a foreign country in order to report on its affairs

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foreign correspondent

David Willey, who served as a BBC foreign correspondent for more than half a century, has died aged 93.

From BBC ● Jul. 12, 2026

Holly Williams: Williams has been a foreign correspondent working out of Istanbul since 2012.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 11, 2026

Shan Li is a foreign correspondent covering India and the surrounding region for The Wall Street Journal's New Delhi bureau.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 11, 2026

Prior to joining the Journal's corporate bureau in New York, Natasha spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent focusing primarily on China.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 2, 2026

Theodore Stanton, foreign correspondent for the New York Tribune, now lived in Paris.

From Susan B. Anthony Rebel, Crusader, Humanitarian by Lutz, Alma