The Value of Foreign Correspondents

It was hard to read today’s Ask the Post chat with David Hoffman, AME for foriegn news, without hearing Tom Fenton and his message of news organizations failing to convey the world to their U.S. audiences echoing in the background–especially when Hoffman wrote, “The correspondents generate most of the ideas [for our overseas coverage]. This is why I feel so strongly about the value of foreign correspondence — there’s no substitute for being there, on the ground, observing, recording, checking and sifting information.”