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Martha Raddatz isn't one to shy away from danger. As senior foreign affairs correspondent for ABC News, she has leapt out of helicopters in Afghanistan, ridden shotgun in F-15 fighter jets, and been out on night patrols in Iraq's Sadr City. "I'm kind of a lone operator," Raddatz says. "I prefer not being in a pack of 25 journalists." But it's less a desire to be a daredevil than a distinctly humanizing touch she brings to delivering the news.

Foreign Policy caught up with Raddatz just off the plane from her latest trip to Afghanistan, where she hopscotched around the country's south in a pair of V-22 Ospreys alongside top U.S. commander Gen. John Allen. There, with Raddatz in tow, Allen appealed for calm as violence erupted across the country following news that U.S. troops had burned Qurans at Bagram Airfield. Back in Washington on her office's carpet -- a Turkish kilim, the first one she ever bought -- Raddatz shared a look at what's inside her black Baggallini carry-on.

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Interview by Benjamin Pauker May/June 2012

This recent event hosted by the Columbia Journalism Review and including representatives of the Reuters wire service is a useful discussion of the changes in foreign correspondence occurring every day. The discussion is particularly illuminating for anyone interested in practicing the craft of foreign correspondence.

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By Reuters TV 11 Apr. 2012

Rarely does the Listening Post dedicate a whole show to the story of a single journalist. But when that story speaks so eloquently of how world history is being written, or erased, we decided it was something we just could not ignore.

In December 2009, Yemen's air force claimed it had killed 30 suspected al-Qaeda operatives during an airstrike on a training camp in the southern Abyan province.

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By Al Jazeera 26 Mar, 2012

The tragic death of Anthony Shadid and Marie Colvin, two celebrated American reporters in chaotic Syria last month, has generated due tributes from colleagues and readers who admired their Middle East coverage over more than two decades.

Shadid, a New York Times reporter, who died of an apparent asthma attack, and Colvin of the Sunday Times, who was killed in shelling in Homs, were also praised for their sense of duty to go on secret assignments, braving Bashar Al-Assad's dictatorship and defying restrictions his regime imposed on covering the Syrian uprising.

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By Salah Al-Nasrawi

President Rafael Correa in his Quito palace. Journalists say that following a new code could hamper their reports about elections.

QUITO, Ecuador — The fight goes on for Rafael Correa, the president of Ecuador, who has been in a relentless donnybrook with his country’s news media almost from the day he took office five years ago.

At the end of February, he pardoned three executives and a columnist at El Universo, a leading conservative newspaper, who were sentenced to three years in jail and fined $42 million in a libel lawsuit brought by the president. But it was not a truce, Mr. Correa explained. He is no less irate at what he calls the dictatorship of the media.

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By WILLIAM NEUMAN March 12, 2012