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Part V - From Local to Global

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2022

Noah Amir Arjomand
Affiliation:
Indiana University
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Part V presents an overview of different fixers’ career trajectories in the larger context of the international news economy and shifting meta-narratives about Turkey and Syria. Fixers find opportunities to contribute to the news behind the scenes, even as their counterparts in the domestic Turkish media face political and economic hardship, and even as Syria has become an inhospitable environment for journalists. Many fixers nonetheless find it difficult to challenge dominant narratives imposed by foreign reporters and news organizations, and so end up moving on to different pursuits. Turnover of both fixers and foreign reporters is continual and counterintuitively contributes to the stability of the system of international news production. The book concludes with a discussion of emergent forms of social media–based information brokerage in newsmaking in comparison with the longer-standing tradition of local fixers assisting foreign reporters.

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Fixing Stories
Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria
, pp. 265 - 310
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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