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correspondent

[kawr-uh-spon-duhnt, kor-] / ˌkɔr əˈspɒn dənt, ˌkɒr- /


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The BBC's culture correspondent Noor Nanji has been to meet the stars, with Kapoor sharing his thoughts on AI in film, and how he felt making Ramayana as a new father.

From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026

Viewers can see the information before CNN chief national correspondent John King presents the results on the network’s Magic Wall.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 31, 2026

BBC F1 correspondent Andrew Benson answers your latest questions after the race in Austin.

From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2026

He was previously Washington correspondent for the Daily Telegraph.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2026

“We shall be ranked among those nations who have shown themselves careless of appearances,” wrote the Chicago Tribune's Paris correspondent on May 13, 1889.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson

The Times’ editors mischievously assigned the story to one of their war correspondents, Chester G. Hanson, who chronicled the maneuvers of the “Arizona Navy,” consisting of a single ferryboat, the Julia B.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2026

Amanpour began working for CNN in 1983 as an assistant on the international news desk, and went on to become one of the network's best-known correspondents, often reporting on conflicts and wars.

From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026

British units stationed near their U.S. allies would, according to one of Trautman’s correspondents, “beg and borrow” ASEs whenever they could.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 6, 2026

AFP correspondents heard loud explosions in the Houthi-held capital Sanaa on Thursday evening, while the internationally recognised government's military said it had carried out strikes on Houthi targets in Sanaa, Saada and Taiz.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Instead, correspondents filed their reports by voice or fax via satellite phone, and those reports were typed into computers for dissemination on the Web by editors in New York, Boston, and Seattle.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer


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