The fixer on the Pak-Afghan frontier: A de-skilled local labour in the global media
This study examines power misuse in global news production by focusing on the role of “fixer.” Fixer is a local journalist who reports for global media on conflict-riddled areas or crisis situations. By interviewing forty fixers in Pakistan’s war-hit Pashtun Belt along the Afghanistan border, I exa...
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| Language: | English |
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IDEA PUBLISHERS
2021-09-01
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| Series: | Liberal Arts and Social Sciences International Journal |
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| Online Access: | https://ideapublishers.org/index.php/lassij/article/view/371 |