The American Journalism Review published this “census of foreign correspondents” in 2010. A few things to note:
- These are all U.S. media organizations (duh, American Journalism Review).
- This list includes both staffers and what AJR referred to as “contract writers.” So it’s a snapshot of that specific moment in history.
- It doesn’t include our favorite “Internet-y correspondents,” like @acarvin, @Max_Fisher and @AntDeRosa.
If we were to publish a census of foreign correspondents now, with the same provisions — staff on the ground abroad somewhere — what would the landscape look like?
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This was written ten years ago:
Although not yet well understood, technology-driven changes are reshaping international news flows by lowering the economic barriers of entry to publishing and broadcasting and encouraging the proliferation of nontraditional international news sources. The audience-now fragmented and active-is far better able to choose and even shape the news. Consequently, a broader definition of foreign correspondence and of foreign correspondents is required to assess what consumers of news now know about the world.
— John Maxwell Hamilton and Eric Jenner, writing for Foreign Affairs
Have we found that definition?
“You don’t need to go to India to escape materialism. If you want to escape materialism, quit being materialistic.”
St. Patrick’s Day, Childe Hassam
The images above become 10 times more impressive when you learn they’re self portraits. Ahn Jun’s portfolio revolves around self portraits captured in precarious situations.
Death-Defying Self Portraits Taken at the Edge of the World
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Seen in Chinatown
Even as students like Ms. Zhang flock to Chinese universities, rising numbers of China’s students attend foreign universities. Chinese undergraduate or graduate students at American universities reached a record high of 194,000 in the last academic year, according to the Institute of International Education in New York. That was almost triple the 67,000 five years earlier.
In part, this reflects the prestige of studying abroad, and that more Chinese families can afford the cost and are looking for ways to get their money and their children out of the country as a way to hedge their risk against internal political or economic turbulence. But it is also because a Western college education is better, and Western universities do not require the same high marks as Chinese ones do on China’s famously difficult college entrance exams.
Chinese undergraduates who study in the West tend to be from wealthy families and show a wide range of academic ability, from mediocre to outstanding. But Chinese graduate students studying abroad typically have bachelor’s degrees from top-tier universities either at home or in the West, and they almost always excel academically while overseas, said Doug Guthrie, a professor of Chinese business strategies who is the dean of George Washington University’s School of Business.
You can build a strong, sound, and artful structure. You can build a structure in such a way that it causes people to want to keep turning pages. A compelling structure in nonfiction can have an attracting effect analogous to a story line in fiction.
There’s a (paywalled) piece by…
