Andrew Stroehlein: “Welcome to a world without foreign correspondents”
April 21st, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Journalism, Press freedom and ethics
“We’ve all watched the cutting of foreign news budgets for so long that we’ve become almost numb to it,” comments Andrew Stroehlein, communications director for the International Crisis Group, on the Reuters AlertNet blog.
“Another bureau cut here, another three correspondent posts dropped there – drip, drip, drip – the dwindling capacity of overseas news gathering is constant background noise. Or ever-increasing silence, perhaps.
“But now we’ve come to two situations that show us what the world will be like when there are no foreign correspondents left,” Strohlein says – pointing to Somalia and Sri Lanka as examples.
(via @FrontlineBlog)
Tags: Andrew Stroehlein, communications director, correspondent, foreign correspondents, International Crisis Group, reuters, reuters alertnet, Somalia, Sri Lanka
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April 21st, 2009 at 3:07 pm
NO FCs – “accckkkk – furball” … apols to Bill D. Cat (and Opus)