World news is the term media outlets use to refer to stories from abroad, or those about a global subject. It can also be defined as journalism that deals with events or issues not directly related to a country’s government or its national institutions, such as multilateral organizations.
A journalist who specializes in world news can either be a foreign correspondent (a full-time reporter employed by a news source) or a special envoy (sent abroad to cover a specific subject, temporarily stationed in a location). News agencies also produce world news, often referred to as wire services (they originally delivered their articles via telegraph, but now they mainly use the Internet). They supply their reports to newspapers, radio and television stations, magazines, or individual journalists.
The BBC’s Mark Lowen is reporting on a major military operation in Sudan, just weeks after the US and UN condemned the government for alleged genocide in Darfur. He speaks to a Sudanese poet who grew up in Darfur and a former CIA official about what’s happening now in the city of El Fasher. We also look at what’s attracting millions of red crabs to Australia’s Christmas Island, how a Rembrandt heist could be solved with fingerprints and silent evidence and the story behind the disappearance of a huge chunk of a meteor in Antarctica.