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„A correspondent is a journalist who regularly prepares news, reports, and analyses for a media outlet located in another city or country. They are not journalists who specialize in a certain area. They follow all important events related to politics, culture, entertainment, or sports. They act independently, or as part of a correspondence office if there are several correspondents. They do not follow events only in the city where the correspondence office is located, but they cover a wider geographical area,“ WDR radio correspondent, Violeta Oroshi explained.
In the latest episode of the media literacy campaign “OpisMEDIJavanje,” Oroshi explained what correspondents are, how they work, and why they are important both for the media outlets they work for and the audience that follows them.
The media outlets that have correspondents are the media which the public trusts the most, Oroshi said, adding that the public is more informed precisely because of the work of correspondents.
„When it comes to the Western Balkans, correspondents from Brussels, The Hague, the United States, or some other center of political power are very important,“ she explained.
The contribution to informing, however, is going in the other direction, Oroshi explained, citing as an example the time she worked as a BBC correspondent from Kosovo in March 2010 reporting on a meeting between former UNMIK chief Bernard Kushner and Rada Trajkovic.
„Questions and answers related to the yellow house were in the focus of domestic and international media, but for me, as a BBC correspondent it was not enough, which is why I asked Rada Trajkovic for an interview. On that occasion, I learned that they discussed the possibility – behind closed doors – of organizing a conference or gathering which would be attended by officials from Serbia and Kosovo, where they would hold a discussion on defining their relations. At the time, this information was published only by the BBC,“ underlined Oroshi.
