Who is the first war correspondent in the world?

War correspondents refer to reporters who report news during wars, also known as "military reporters". They are a professional division of labor among journalists. War correspondents also include journalists, painters, and photographers. The battlefield news or eyewitness news they collect and write based on their personal experiences and observations is battlefield reporting. War correspondents first appeared in Western countries and were born in Europe in the early 19th century. They emerged with the development of modern newspapers and the military. War correspondents have a history of 200 years.

War correspondents have run through the entire history of modern journalism, as well as the history of wars over the past 200 years. The history of war correspondents is actually a unique history of journalism and a unique history of war.

In February 1854, British "Times" reporter William Howard Russell accompanied the British army on an expedition to Malta and became the world's first professional war reporter