Journalism's Roving Eye: A History of American Foreign Reporting By John Maxwell Hamilton
Publisher: Louisiana State University Press 2009-09-14 | 655 Pages | ISBN: 0807134740 | PDF | 19 MB
In all of journalism, nowhere are the stakes higher than in foreign news-gathering. For media owners, it is the most difficult type of reporting to finance; for editors, the hardest to oversee. Correspondents, roaming large swaths of the planet, must acquire expertise that home-based reporters take for granted–facility with the local language, for instance, or an understanding of local cultures…