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Encyclopedia > Correspondents

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is in a foreign country. The term correspondent refers to the original practice of filing news reports via postal letter. This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... Television news refers to the practice of disseminating current events via the media of television. ...

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Reporter vs. correspondent

A correspondent generally interjects some of his/her own opinions into the reported news. A reporter on the other hand in general considered to be impartial, i.e. only reports and nothing more. The term and spirit of the reporter is found more in British news, such as the BBC. While the correspondent is more of an American term, used in media outlets such as NBC or Fox News. The British Broadcasting Corporation, invariably known as the BBC (and also informally known as the Beeb or Auntie) is the largest broadcasting corporation in the world, employing 26,000 staff in the UK alone and with a budget of £4 billion. ... NBC (an abbreviation for National Broadcasting Company, its former corporate name) is an American television network based in New York Citys Rockefeller Center and is shown on basic cable in Canada. ... The Fox News Channel (FNC) is an American cable and satellite news channel. ...


War correspondent

Main article: War correspondent

A war correspondent covers stories first-hand from a war zone. It is perhaps the most dangerous form of journalism. A war correspondent is a journalist who covers stories first-hand from a war zone. ... Conflict is a state of opposition, disagreement or incompatibility between two or more people or groups of people, which is sometimes characterized by physical violence. ...


Foreign bureau

A foreign bureau is an office set up to support a news gathering operation in a foreign country.


On-the-scene TV news

In TV news, a "live on-the-scene" reporter reports from the field during a "live shot". This became an extremely popular format with the advent of Eyewitness News. Eyewitness News is a local television newscast format, widely used in different markets across the United States. ...


A recent cost-saving measure is for local tv news to dispense with out-of-town reporters and replace them with syndicated correspondents, usually supplied by a centralized news reporting agency. The producers of the show schedule time with the correspondent, who then appears "live" to file a report and chat with the hosts. The reporter will go do a number of similar reports for other stations. Many viewers may be unaware that the reporter does not work directly for the news show.[1] This is also a popular way to report the weather. For example, AccuWeather doesn't just supply data, they also supply on-air meteorologists from television studios at their headquerters. [2] [3] AccuWeather is a large American company that provides weather forecasting services. ... A television studio is an installation in which television or video productions take place, either for live television, for recording live on tape, or for the acquisition of raw footage for postproduction. ...

See also: Video news release, Eyewitness News, and Double-ender

Image:Screen. ... Eyewitness News is a local television newscast format, widely used in different markets across the United States. ... Double-ender refers to a technique used to conduct televised interviews over long distances in the 1980s before satellite television became commonplace, in order to provide video to what would otherwise be an audio-only interview. ...

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