Let's Go's editors also perform extensive research before writers go abroad to make sure the routes they travel have "no danger," she says.
But she says it is difficult for Let's Go to provide its writers with the security of a contact within their travel regions.
"You can't assume the editor will know people in the country," she says.
McCarthy says expense is one consideration behind Let's Go's policy of sending one research writer along each route.
"Cost is always an issue," McCarthy says. "If one person can do the job as adequately as two, then why send two superfluously?"
"Time, effort and money are all issues," McCarthy says.
She adds that while Let's Go won't pay for two students to travel to the same region, some past researchers have chosen to bring along a companion anyway. But she said this arrangement usually leads to much less productive work on the part of the reporter.
"It's hard to work as a team because of the hectic schedule," McCarthy says. "So we discourage it."
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