Some news organizations, including The Washington Post, are using reporters already accredited and based in Havana.

That is due to a lack of reporters based out of those facilities.

Last Thursday, a reporter based in Haiti who works for The Times posed as a family friend and was allowed to visit him for seven minutes.

Today, there are about 50 American reporters based in Mexico, but only 5 or so based in Canada.

Mrs. James, 50, was until recently a reporter based in Washington for Conus Communications, a television news service.

The latter was closed in November 2008 after a reporter based there was laid-off.

Sherbrooke is now covered by reporters based at the Montreal and Quebec City bureaus.

Marilyn also made a point of getting to know on a first-name basis some of the reporters permanently based at the studio.

His trip here to the heavily fortified American Embassy was a closely guarded secret, and reporters based here were not invited to meet with him.

The reporter, loosely based on the real reporter Ernie Pyle, acts as a narrator of stories, without being directly involved in them.