Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering: The Role of Fixers (Routledge Research in Journalism)
By Colleen Murrell.
Description
This book reveals that 'fixers'―local experts on whom foreign correspondents rely―play a much more significant role in international television newsgathering than has been documented or understood. Murrell explores the frames though which international reporting has traditionally been analysed and then shows that fixers, who have largely been dismissed by scholars as 'logistical aides', are in fact central to the day-to-day decision-making that takes place on-the-road. Murrell looks at why and how fixers are selected and what their significance is to foreign corresponden...
ISBN(s)
0415733359, 9780415733359
