Mr. Powers: How would you like to cover the biggest story in the world today? Johnny Jones: Give me an expense account and I'll cover anything. There has always been a touch of glamour associated with foreign correspondents, able to live in far-away lands and report on wars and strife, as in the Alf...

On my way to school, I drive/ride/walk past a golf course, where, regardless of weather conditions (fog, rain, heat) and time of day or week, several people are moving around in their white tiny carts, with their white tiny caps, striking white tiny balls. Some of the balls end up in the grass near ...

Look, I am no fan of Sam Zell and what he is doing at the LA Times and Chicago Tribune, however I was taken by an interview at Atlantic.com with one of his minions, Lee Abrams, the chief innovation officer at the Tribune company. Abrams was surprised that the company had a Iraq reporter and more sur...

Dorothy Thompson is one of the most celebrated foreign correspondents of all times - and one of the few women who took up what was generally considered a man's job. In 1934, the Nazis expelled her from Germany, which transformed the already respected correspondent into a heroine over night. Although...

It's amazing how technology shaped foreign correspondence over time. And I'm not talking about the trench coat and the typewriter era, but the latest three decades. For instance, correspondents in 1989 had 800 pounds of equipment to carry around. It took between five and seven hours to set everythin...