"International" vs "Foreign" [closed]

Let's say a group of journalists from abroad visit an institution in your country and you'll write an article about them. What would you call them?

International Journalists or Foreign Journalists or in another way.

Remember that these journalists do NOT belong to a specific group or association like "International Federation of Journalists". They are just random journalists from all over the world.

Solution 1:

"Foreign" means "from another country". "International" means "from multiple countries". Which is appropriate depends on context.

From the point of view of someone from country X, anyone not from country X is "foreign". So if, say, you were talking about journalists from a variety of country coming to your country to, say, report on some local event, you could say, "Foreign journalists came to cover this event."

If you are talking about a group of journalists from many countries, and no one country is a reference point, then you could call them "international". Like if journalists from many countries were working together to cover events happening in many countries, or to discuss journalism in general, so there is not one obvious "home". Like, "International journalists formed an email group to discuss objectivity in news reporting."

If the group includes both domestic and foreign journalists, than it would be inaccurate to say "foreign"; you'd have to say "international".

Solution 2:

Foreign journalists does not include journalists from the host country while international journalists does. A visit by the US president to the UK would be covered by both foreign and UK journalists and pieces by both foreign and UK journalists my well be syndicated worldwide so the vist would be covered by international journalists.

However a report in the UK might well include the sentence "Foreign journalists came to London to cover the Presidential visit"