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Matthew Tempest
Matthew Tempest is a British journalist and documentary film-maker now living in Berlin, as editor of EUobserver.com after postings in Paris for AFP, and in Brussels covering Brexit. He was formerly a political correspondent TheGuardian.com, which he joined in 2001 as the paper's first online Westminster reporter, pioneering live-blogging of PMQs and the 2001 general election, and interviewed Noam Chomsky and Harold Pinter. While studying English at University College, London, he was a contemporary at UCL Film Society with Christopher Nolan. In 2004 he worked in Berlin for ''Der Spiegel'' online, courtesy of a grant from the International Journalist Programme (IJP). Before joining ''The Guardian'' he was a parliamentary reporter for the ''Sunday People'' after two years at the ''Daily Mirror'' and ''Sunday Mirror''in London, Glasgow and Belfast. His interests in his writing include architecture, transport, the environment and alternative politics outside mainstream British pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Correspondent
A correspondent or on-the-scene reporter is usually a journalist or commentator for a magazine, or an agent who contributes reports to a newspaper, or radio or television news, or another type of company, from a remote, often distant, location. A foreign correspondent is stationed in a foreign country. The term "correspondent" refers to the original practice of filing news reports via postal letter. The largest networks of correspondents belong to ARD (Germany) and BBC (UK). Vs. reporter In Britain, the term 'correspondent' usually refers to someone with a specific specialist area, such as health correspondent. A 'reporter' is usually someone without such expertise who is allocated stories by the newsdesk on any story in the news. A 'correspondent' can sometimes have direct executive powers, for example a 'Local Correspondent' (voluntary) of the Open Spaces Society (founded 1865) has some delegated powers to speak for the Society on path and commons matters in their area ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |