Special correspondents

Special correspondents are journalists who report for a news media on special events or a special area of interest. A correspondent may emerge from a rank of the reporter. The duty of correspondent not only includes gathering facts but to interpret and analyses new form all angles. A correspondent is a major medium for ‘important information who can tell the audience about what is likely to happen. For this purpose, the correspondent must know the pulse of the people and should have vast and varied contacts. A special correspondent has supreme loyalty to the audience. Foreign correspondents, Capitol correspondents, War correspondents are some of the examples for correspondents.