foreign correspondent
nounDefinition of foreign correspondent
: a correspondent employed to send news or comment from a foreign country
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And baby makes four! NBC News chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel and his wife Mary Forrest welcomed their second child, a baby boy, over the weekend. — Aurelie Corinthios, PEOPLE.com, "Richard Engel and Wife Mary Welcome Baby Boy Theodore After First Son's Rett Syndrome Diagnosis," 19 Aug. 2019 The author, a British former foreign correspondent now living in America, has tracked down survivors, unearthed archival documents and obtained family papers. — The Economist, "Witold Pilecki is an unsung hero of the second world war," 25 July 2019 Based in Washington, D.C., Abigail Higgins spent years as a foreign correspondent and researcher in East Africa. — National Geographic, "Visit the African park that inspired “The Lion King”," 11 July 2019 In recent decades, most leading media outlets have cut the number of foreign correspondents on staff and closed down news bureaus abroad, and freelancers like me have filled the void. — Annika Hernroth-rothstein, National Review, "I Was Kidnapped in Venezuela," 7 June 2019 Paul Salopek won two Pulitzer Prizes for his journalism while a foreign correspondent with the Chicago Tribune . — Paul Salopek, National Geographic, "Inside the deadly world of India’s sand mining mafia," 26 June 2019 State and non-state actors that used to court foreign correspondents in the hopes of favorable coverage are now using the Internet to control their own narratives. — Muhammad Idrees Ahmad, The New York Review of Books, "Bellingcat and How Open Source Reinvented Investigative Journalism," 10 June 2019 At the end of 2011, Jim Sciutto moved to Beijing to become chief of staff and senior policy adviser to U.S. Ambassador to China Gary Locke, after spending a decade as ABC News senior foreign correspondent. — Jim Geraghty, National Review, "Jim Sciutto’s Quiet Indictment of the Obama Administration," 6 June 2019 Richard Engel, NBC News chief foreign correspondent, reports on the unprecedented surveillance state China has created to prevent another rebellion. — Petra Cahill, NBC News, "From pageantry to protests, Day 2 of Trump's U.K. state visit: The Morning Rundown," 4 June 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'foreign correspondent.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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