Chuckling at the memory of that blind shot of the final act of World War II while we munched on French cheese left over from the party he had thrown for his 99th birthday a few days earlier, Max Desfor told me how he had entrusted the film to an officer to bring back to Washington before even knowing if he had captured the historic images or not. No foreign correspondence practice has changed more dramatically in the past eight decades than filing the news. For the vast majority of the 20th century, correspondents who had chased sources, braved dangers, and fought through spin and restrictions to write a story still faced what was often the greatest hurdle: getting it out. Only in the past couple of decades, instead of fighting over phone lines for dictation or ringing telex bells hoping that some bureau somewhere in the world might be seeing the story, foreign correspondents could be in constant contact from the front lines. The increased connectivity, however, has subtly affected stories, especially by minimizing the desk/field distance and by amplifying the time pressures on reporting, putting at risk accuracy or depth.