1.   A good fixer is worth his weight in gold, while a bad one can turn a reporting trip into a frustrating, confusing mess.

2.   During a recent reporting trip to the desert kingdom, I arranged to have lunch with an American businessman and his wife.

3.   He was on a similar reporting trip last month when he disappeared.

4.   The idea for a journey along Martin Luther King was born some years ago on a reporting trip through the Mississippi Delta.

5.   While it has granted temporary visas to American correspondents for individual reporting trips, the only American news organization to win permission for a permanent correspondent has been CNN.

6.   Going on unauthorized reporting trips, special living allowances, threatening exposes and wining and dining lavishly at public expense are out, the reports said.

7.   His first glimmer of hope came when a journalist from the Russian newspaper Kommersant, Olga Alenova, was on a reporting trip in Pankisi.

8.   Kremb moved to Singapore in July and had come back to Beijing on Tuesday for a reporting trip.

9.   Last year, he welcomed a half-dozen American journalists on a reporting trip sponsored by the U.S. Council for the Advancement of Science Writing.

10.   Snow has been among AP reporters making periodic reporting trips to Cuba in the absence of resident status and has made five visits this year alone.