Important Notice: Our web hosting provider recently started charging us for additional visits, which was unexpected. In response, we're seeking donations. Depending on the situation, we may explore different monetization options for our Community and Expert Contributors. It's crucial to provide more returns for their expertise and offer more Expert Validated Answers or AI Validated Answers. Learn more about our hosting issue here.

Is there reason to be hopeful as an aspiring foreign correspondent?

1
10 Posted

Is there reason to be hopeful as an aspiring foreign correspondent?

0
10

I think there’s reason to be both hopeful, as a young person who wants to be a foreign correspondent, and concerned, as someone who consumes foreign reporting. There’s been a lot of leveling and, as a consequence, a lot less seasoning. When I graduated from college in 1997, the accepted route to becoming a foreign correspondent was: Go work for a mid-sized metropolitan daily like the Raleigh News and Observer, do well enough there to get a job at someplace with foreign bureaus, like the Washington Post, but you had to start off covering cops for them, and then graduate to a more high-profile beat, get on the front page, kiss up to your bosses and then maybe you’d eventually get rewarded with a foreign posting. If everything went exactly right, you could have a desk and an apartment in Frankfurt in, say, 15 years. Today, the Frankfurt bureau is probably closed, the Washington Post isn’t hiring, and midsized dailies are going out of business — the old path is gone, probably forever. But

Related Questions

Thanksgiving questions

*Sadly, we had to bring back ads too. Hopefully more targeted.