News "fixers" are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Operating in the shadows, fixers' contributions to journalism are largely hidden from us, yet they underpin the entire international news industry: almost every international news story we read today could not be produced without a fixer. In The Fixers, Lindsay Palmer reveals the lives and struggle of thoseperforming some of the most important work in international news.
News "fixers" are locally-based media employees who serve as translators, coordinators, and guides to foreign journalists in unfamiliar terrain. Operating in the shadows, fixers' contributions to journalism are largely hidden from us, yet they underpin the entire international news industry: almost every international news story we read today could not be produced without a fixer. In The Fixers, Lindsay Palmer reveals the lives and struggle of thoseperforming some of the most important work in international news.
Lindsay Palmer is Associate Professor of Global Media in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She studies the labor of international reporting from a qualitative, critical perspective. Before her career in academia, she worked as a television news producer.
Inhaltsangabe
Introduction: Defining the Labor: What Do News Fixers Do? Chapter One: Conceptualizing the Story Chapter Two: Navigating the Logistics Chapter Three: Networking with Sources Chapter Four: Interpreting Unfamiliar Languages Chapter Five: Safeguarding the Journalist Conclusion: Relinquishing the Story: Where Does the Labor End? Appendix Research Methods
Introduction: Defining the Labor: What Do News Fixers Do? Chapter One: Conceptualizing the Story Chapter Two: Navigating the Logistics Chapter Three: Networking with Sources Chapter Four: Interpreting Unfamiliar Languages Chapter Five: Safeguarding the Journalist Conclusion: Relinquishing the Story: Where Does the Labor End? Appendix Research Methods
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