This PhD project is centered around the main question what the influence is of news values on the changing role and relevance of the foreign correspondent. The foreign correspondent has historically always played an important, if not crucial, role in foreign reporting. Globalization and technological developments like the rise of the internet and specifically social media, have contributed to a changing approach by media organizations towards (foreign) reporting.
These developments have contributed to the question whether the foreign correspondent is still relevant as the main messenger of news from abroad.
The aim of this PhD project is to bring news values into the debate about the changing role and relevance of the foreign correspondent and how they play a role and might have an influence on this. With the goal to come to a possible new definition of the foreign correspondent, coming out of the changes and developments that are happening in journalism today, but giving a more prominent place to news values.
