Jill Carroll is a staff writer for the Christian Science Monitor. From October 2003 through May 2004, Ms. Carroll lived in Iraq freelancing for various publications and covering daily news for Ansa, an Italian newswire. She returned to Baghdad in January 2005 and began working for the Christian Science Monitor. Before obtaining her current position, Ms. Carroll worked for the States News Service, Wall Street Journal, and Jordan Times covering various topics including the FCC, higher education, health, sports, and business. Ms. Carroll graduated from the University of Massachusetts with a B.A. in journalism in 1999. Her research project at the Shorenstein was an analysis of the decline of foreign bureaus in the wake of changes in the newspaper industry.
Foreign News Coverage: The U.S. Media’s Undervalued Asset
March 1, 2007
A paper by Jill Carroll, fall 2006 fellow, argues that media companies that cut back on foreign bureaus and correspondents are making a financial miscalculation and missing an opportunity to capitalize on an undervalued asset. High-quality foreign news coverage is in demand by readers and viewers, particularly by middle-aged, upper income consumers – an attractive
