Correspondent:

A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is a journalist or commentator for magazines, or more

generally speaking, an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, orradio or television news,
or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is
stationed in a foreign country. The termcorrespondent refers to the original practice of filing
news reports via postal letter. The largest networks of correspondents belong to ARD (Germany)
and BBC (UK).
Reporter vs. correspondent
A correspondent generally includes some of his/her own perspective on the news. For example, a
correspondent is expected to provide considerable context to the events being chronicled. A
reporter, on the other hand, offers largely fact-based reporting.
In Britain the term 'correspondent' usually refers to someone with a specific specialist area, such
as health correspondent. A 'reporter' is usually someone without such expertise who is allocated
stories by the newsdesk on any story in the news.
Common types of correspondent
Capitol correspondent
A capitol correspondent is a correspondent who reports from headquarters of government.
Entertainment correspondent
Red carpet correspondent
A red carpet correspondent is an entertainment reporter who is selected to report from the red
carpet of an entertainment or media event, such as a premiere, award ceremony or festival.
Foreign correspondent
A foreign correspondent is any individual who reports from primarily foreign locations.
War correspondent
Main article: War correspondent
A war correspondent is a foreign correspondent who covers stories first-hand from a war zone.
Foreign bureau
A foreign bureau is a news bureau set up to support a news gathering operation in a foreign
country.
On-the-scene TV news


Press TV correspondent during a demonstration in Madrid.
In TV news, a "live on-the-scene" reporter reports from the field during a "live shot". This has
become an extremely popular format with the advent of Eyewitness News.
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 and 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 headquarters.