Book Details
Mandatory Fields
Colleen Murrell
2015
December
Foreign Correspondents and International Newsgathering: The Role of Fixers
Routledge
New York
Published
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Optional Fields
Foreign Correspondents; Fixers; International News; BBC; ITN; Sky: ABC; Channel 9; Indonesia; Iraq
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 through 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 correspondence. She asks if fixers help introduce a local perspective into international news agendas, or if fixers are simply 'People Like Us' (PLU). Also included are in-depth case studies of correspondents in Iraq and Indonesia.
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978-0-415-73335-9 / 978-1
https://www.routledge.com/Foreign-Correspondents-and-International-Newsgathering-The-Role-of-Fixers/Murrell/p/book/9781138548428
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