People's Correspondent
People's correspondent course in 1952 in the Leipzig Ratskeller
People's correspondent was the official name for the freelance workers in GDR newspapers between 1945 and 1989.
Articles written by people's correspondents were signed with “VK NN” in the GDR newspapers. People's correspondents were the informers of local news and thus played an important role. You should be able to place a local incident in the officially desired context and to report on it objectively. More politically demanding articles were usually reserved for the editors of newspapers and magazines.
Forerunners of the People's Correspondents in the GDR existed in the Soviet press since the 1920s and in the communist press of the Weimar Republic .