World news (also called international or foreign coverage) is the media jargon for the branch of journalism that focuses on events or issues that affect a global audience. The term also refers to the area of work performed by reporters who are based abroad, often in the field, and file stories for their employers back home. Reporters who regularly cover a country or a region are known as correspondents, and may be full-time employees of a newspaper, magazine or television news program, or they may be freelancers, sometimes called stringers, that work for several different outlets.
For example, a reporter in Jerusalem may produce stories for a number of American news programs, while another might be a staff reporter at an Australian daily newspaper. In general, world news is considered a specialty area of journalism, though many times it intersects with national or domestic coverage, especially when dealing with war or other major events that involve the country’s government or its citizens.
On February 17 of 2011, the show paid tribute to host and co-anchor Kiran Nair on her final appearance, as well as to departed colleague Jeremy Hubbard; Nair was treated to breakfast by the show’s crew on her last day. The following night, the show premiered new graphics for all of its segments and began using a set that featured a side view of the existing ABC World News sets.
Some nights, the show’s anchors checked in with a local ABC affiliate to find out what they were covering that night, or would broadcast the first few minutes of an affiliated station’s late local newscast during a breaking story. World News Now also ran “InsomniACTS” – a segment where a local jazz band is invited to the studio to perform a song on air; and “World News Knows” – a quick trivia fact flashed on screen after commercial breaks.
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