ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the real-life travails and triumphs of local journalists from Bosnia, Northern Ireland, Pakistan, Mexico, Liberia, and Russia. It explores local journalists' decisions, pursuits, and limitations while living in the danger zones. These journalists reveal their unique experiences while reporting on dangerous or taboo topics and reveal how their experiences, commitments, emotions, and professional goals differ from those of their foreign correspondent counterparts. Contrasting with both foreign correspondents and present-day local correspondents in the previous chapter, local journalists reveal how their histories, frustrations, emotions, and experiences shaped their stories and beyond. Journalists concerned for their livelihoods self-censor in self-preservation. Although foreign correspondents share similar emotions and commitments, for local journalists, they are more personal: it is their home and their friends and family who suffer. While foreign correspondents slip in and out of danger zones, local journalists remain under sustained challenges, searching for ways to make a "better society".
