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This chapter questions whether the concept and role of the foreign correspondent still exists in light of the digital media environment that reporters operate in today, with the rise of social media where users have access to events on the ground. This chapter includes a discussion on various scholarly debates on this, arguing that there is still a need for reporters on the ground to report on events, albeit that the concept of the foreign correspondent might need to change within an ever-changing media environment. At the same time, there is a greater need for cultural diversity as positions on global media discourse state, hence the need for more cultural understanding.
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Bebawi, S., Evans, M. (2019). Can the Foreign Correspondent Still Exist?. In: The Future Foreign Correspondent. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01668-5_3
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