How to be a foreign correspondent
“have someone interesting to talk to, somewhere interesting to go to, something interesting to write about, record, shoot, film, link to, and an outlet to file to, every single day”
That’s it. The outlet could be The New Yorker. Or it could be Twitter. Or both. But, that, in sum, as far as I see it, is it.
Oh… and deffo have a second stream of income. At least in the short term. And go somewhere cheap. And odd. The odder the better. Oh… and read a lot. Read loads. Don’t write anything until you’ve read loads.
Foreign correspondent - such a quaint, loaded term in many ways. A dying trade, at least in its traditional garb (quite rightly), but a trade ripe for an overhaul.
