Flight tickets are not necessary, but an internet connection is. For out there on the world wide web, a number of companies are attempting to make the lives of freelance journalists and commissioning editors easier. The premise is relatively simple. Freelance journalists often have material that they would love to use in a number of markets. What they lack is the time and the contacts to market them effectively.
Editors are always on the look-out for new material from trustworthy sources.
They too often lack the time and resources to go looking. Surely, then, the internet represents the ideal way of putting these two together more efficiently. So much for the theory. His ambition is to have the site on every editor's desktop, with content arriving throughout the day, as well as having the EPN-accredited journalists available as a worldwide network of stringers. At the moment there are 40 categories that journalists can file their items into, ranging from current affairs to crime and religion.