Teach and review

Correspondents and stringers

Correspondents and stringers give students a way to ask a reporting contact for context or a lead. The wizard prepares briefs and displays chat links that you supply.

Find contacts for your stories

On Choose a starting point, select Correspondents and stringers.
Choose the stories and pace for your exercise, then open Review and schedule.
Set the scheduled start and time zone. Open Correspondent and stringer briefs.

Each suggested contact has a list of matching stories. For example, Tokyo appears when a selected story is mapped to that bureau. Choose Correspondent or Stringer to put the contact in the appropriate section for students.

Correspondent and stringer briefs with a matching story, contact type, chat link and Download brief button — The wizard shows why a contact is available and lets you choose where it appears. View full size

Download a brief and add a chat link

Click Download [city] brief. The brief uses the scheduled times and includes reporting notes where the Story Pack has them.
Create the contact in your chat tool. For Gemini, paste the text into the Gem’s Instructions, then preview and save it. Google’s Gem setup guide.
Paste the link into Chat link (optional). Test it with a student account before class. Contacts with blank links stay hidden from students.
Schedule the run. If you change the start time, stories or contact type, download a fresh brief and update the chat tool.

Check what your chat tool shares. If a platform exposes shared instructions, students may be able to read future developments. Test the permissions and student experience before distributing links.