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Correspondent

Meaning in journalism & media, with examples

/ˌkɒrɪˈspɒndənt/nounCore term

In journalism & media, correspondent means: A reporter who is based in a particular city or country, or who specialises in one subject, and sends regular reports from there or about it.

In Turkish: muhabir, temsilci, bölge muhabiri

How it is used

Usually named by place or subject: foreign correspondent, Paris correspondent, economics correspondent, health correspondent. On TV, presenters hand over to a correspondent: let's go to our correspondent in Rome.

Example sentences

  1. Our Berlin correspondent has been following the trade talks all week.

  2. She spent ten years as a foreign correspondent in South America.

Common collocations

  • foreign correspondent
  • health correspondent
  • chief correspondent
  • our correspondent in
  • war correspondent
  • reporterA journalist whose main job is to find out what is happening, talk to people, collect facts and write or broadcast news stories about it.
  • journalistA person whose job is to gather, write, edit or present news and information for newspapers, websites, radio, television or other media.
  • beatThe subject, institution or area that a reporter covers regularly, such as health, education, crime, the courts or city hall.
  • news agencyAn organisation that collects news, photos and video and sells or supplies them to newspapers, broadcasters and websites, which then publish them.

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