foreign correspondent

noun2

1. •
   A reporter or freelance journalist who is based in a foreign country, and who provides news reports and/or commentary from that place.

   • Oscar Vincent spent several years abroad, after graduation, acting as foreign correspondent of his father's paper. — 1874
2. •
   (old-fashioned) A clerical employee responsible for communicating with an organization's stakeholders in other countries and for processing transactions involving them; a firm employed by an organization to assume such responsibilities.

   • [F]alling in with one of the partners of the umbrella firm in quest of French silk, he was engaged as foreign correspondent. — 1885