By: E&P Staff The American Journalism Review reports that many U.S. news organizations have taken a major step back from the international coverage and are focusing on more local content.
Meanwhile, The Associated Press has been expanding its international reach, providing vital reports.
For example, The South Florida Sun-Sentinel has announced the closing of its national/foreign desk in order to focus more on local content. The Boston Globe has recently closed its last three international bureaus and the Baltimore Sun closed its China bureau and will shut down South Africa and Russia by the end of the year.
Despite this trend, the AP has been expanding its foreign bureaus and has developed a new newsgathering model: collaborative journalism across borders, linking news to a larger picture, presented online in a multimedia format.
The star of the AP foreign bureaus is Iraq with around 200 staffers. However ?the picture of what is happening here in Iraq is incomplete,? according to AP correspondent Robert Reid. That, according to him is because there are not enough foreign bureaus in other cities beside Baghdad to paint a complete picture of what is happening.
The AP is trying to close that gap by growing their foreign bureaus and investing millions to improve communication between foreign bureaus to report the most accurate story possible.
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