Foreign Correspondence

This course equips the modern-day foreign correspondent with skills to face a wide spectrum of coverage challenges ranging from breaking news to in-depth features across multiple platforms. We examine best practices for print, broadcast, and digital realms from story ideation through final publication. Field preparation and research methods, persuasive pitching tactics, source building, and interview styles are developed. Situational and self awareness are emphasized in order to prime students for their regular writing assignments, which focus on both their current community and foreign countries of choice. Weekly real-world foreign coverage from reputable sources including the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the BBC is analyzed in terms of cross-platform approaches, contextual richness, decision making, attribution, objectivity, and stylistic variations.