Modern Adventurers in War Zones; war correspondents and mercenaries

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

I thought French is reasonably common as a third or even second language in the near-Arabic world. That might indicate people can just happen to know Broken/Accented French.

Just so.

On the other hand, I don't know French even at Broken, so I don't know the names of any news organisations other than AFP to drop as someone who has bought stories from a freelancer NPC.*

So I need to know what French newspapers, magazines and other publications would be likely to buy articles and publish them from a freelancer in Iraq. Who does their own foreign reporting these days?

Most news organisations just repost, translating if necessary, stuff that other media has already reported. This applies especially with foreign news. It's only the biggest and most image-conscious news outlets that would even consider the outlay that it involved with gathering their own news from foreign locations.

Which news organisations are these, in the French-speaking world?

I know Icelandic and English-speaking media well enough to be plausible when inventing stuff about them, but I don't know anything about French media.

*When the PCs have his background investigated, perhaps, because they are skeptical that he is just a journalist.

[acrosome]

Originally Posted by Icelander

Just so.

On the other hand, I don't know French even at Broken, so I don't know the names of any news organisations other than AFP to drop as someone who has bought stories from a freelancer NPC.*

So I need to know what French newspapers, magazines and other publications would be likely to buy articles and publish them from a freelancer in Iraq. Who does their own foreign reporting these days?
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Agence France Presse

[Icelander]

Originally Posted by acrosome

Agence France Presse

How viable is it to write feature articles of substantial length for them? I mean, obviously the character in question will send in as often as he can some short and concise news reports meant to be distributed through many individual media outlets, but he'd also like to be able to write the occasional human interest, investigative or analytic piece.

I've found that Le Monde and Le Point have been buying articles from war correspondents in Iraq. Interestingly, a real journalist from Poland had several articles published in Le Monde, which suggests that my fictional French-speaking Polish journalist will do the same.