World news is the jargon used by newspapers and other media for coverage of a subject that affects many countries or a global issue. It is a distinct field from national news, the focus of the news media of belligerent countries in war or international summits, but often overlaps with it and with other topics of global concern such as climate change.
Journalists that specialize in world news are called foreign journalists (or sometimes simply correspondents), and they work either full-time at a newspaper or for a news agency (such as Reuters, AFP, BBC, AP, and Wolff). Reporters who produce articles on a freelance basis for several news outlets at once are known as stringers.
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