Foreign Correspondent's Subjects Also Devoted Readership
‘What will happen to the Baghdad bureau!’ is a cry frequently heard amidst the lamenting of the demise of newspapers. Meaning, once newspapers cease to exist where will the funding come from to support foreign correspondence? Perhaps and equally valid question is who is reading these foreign correspondent’s stories.
An article in the NYT over the weekend looks at how the Internet has widened the audience for American papers to include the locals about whom foreign stories revolve around, while at the same time making promises of anonymity to sources in far flung places less reliable: “the Internet makes it possible, almost everywhere, to see how the world outside sees you, and in real time.”
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