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Foreign Correspondents: Fading Elitism or a New Professional Discourse in the Light of the Digitisation Era?

The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece

ISBN: 978-1-83982-401-2, eISBN: 978-1-83982-400-5

Publication date: 22 October 2020

Abstract

For many decades, foreign correspondents have been regarded as a highly prestigious press corps with the core proposition of bearing witness to events in remote places. However, the advent of the Internet and the new technologies has challenged this position. Citizens living where the events occur can make use of a wide range of digital technologies and inform the rest of the world, without the need for the journalist intermediaries who were essential in the past. In addition, the new economic pressures brought to legacy media by the digital technology have paved the way for the rise of a new type of foreign correspondent, the multiskilled staffer, who has to be technologically literate in order to fulfil his daily task. This study based on 51 interviews with foreign correspondents aims at investigating how the foreign correspondents perceive these trends in their daily working routines and if the digital technology has caused a deprofessionalization of the foreign correspondence or we are witnessing the emergence of a new professional discourse which embraces a new core of professional traits.

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Giannouli, I. (2020), "Foreign Correspondents: Fading Elitism or a New Professional Discourse in the Light of the Digitisation Era?", Veneti, A. and Karatzogianni, A. (Ed.) The Emerald Handbook of Digital Media in Greece (Digital Activism and Society: Politics, Economy And Culture In Network Communication), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 113-128. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83982-400-520201026

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