“…Foreign correspondents: A review of existing research Despite dramatic technological changes occurring over the past three decades, traditional media outlets and news networks have remained central channels for the dissemination of foreign news globally (Dell'Orto, 2013). Although questions have been raised as to whether FCs are still necessary in the 21 st century (Baloch and Andresen, 2020;Niknejad et al, 2014), especially in dangerous areas for traditional and new media news networks alike, FCs are still considered important actors, even more than in the past due to fake news (Brüggemann et al, 2016;Willnat and Martin, 2020;. FC collect, produce, and provide news and information worldwide as direct witnesses and commentators of world events and essential analysts of states' foreign policies (Risso, 2017;Zhang, 2021) well demonstrated in the recent Russian-Ukrainian conflict in which FCs from around the world have played a central role in the war's coverage (Knobel, 2022;Stelter, 2022).…”