This website is dedicated to sharing an insight into foreign correspondents’ life that is not often shown. It’s also to demonstrate how the correspondents role of reporting in these extreme conflict zones has taken an emotional and mental toll on their lives.

The stories each journalist shares on this website about what they’ve gone through to get a story seems to be justified again and again but the fact that the work there doing is so important. These journalists are behind the scenes reporting from dangerous conflict zones, risking their lives and doing whatever it takes just to get information to share the truth to the world and this side of the news is barely ever seen. Foreign correspondent are heroes.

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Critical Analysis: 

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I’ve learnt from these interviews that not all experiences from reporting abroad are similar and the main thing I picked up on is the difference that both freelance and non freelance journalists work, I felt as though the freelance journalists felt a lot more vulnerable and didn’t have as much support in terms of safety and finances compared to the journalists who worked for bigger organisations, they had more flexibility to say no to a story if they wanted whereas the freelancers couldn't afford to.

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​After listening to these reporters, I noticed a common theme that drives them all is there purpose and hope, the fact that the work their doing is informing the world of the truth and hopefully bringing about change. They do what they do because they feel the rest of the world needs to see what’s going on in certain countries and share the raw reality of even everyday life and be the mouthpiece for people that can’t speak out. 

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I felt as though they felt they had to share their sources stories and really worked hard to be able share them as accurately as they could. Similarly they had a strong connection emotionally to the story they were reporting on, they felt connected to the tragedy as they had been amongst it and lived and learnt about it and felt more people needed to know to hopefully get people to not only care but actively make a change.

           

The emotions they described feeling at the time was hard to hear and I felt so much admiration and inspiration because they are really much more than reporters, they risk there lives and have to endure so much.

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I was also shocked by the amount of times they put their lives at risk for the story, and how brave they were in these terrible situations and yet they still continue to do this job with a passion. Even day to day life was crazy and dangerous and these reporters put their lives at risk consistently for their job and what they felt was their duty.

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The way they spoke about how the experience I felt like it affected all of them differently, some it had a much more lasting impact than others. Some had more emotional responses and has left some with heavy hearts and some sort of PTSD and depression however some of them also were quite tough about and didn’t feel like it feel like it affected them apart from I the short term.