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  • Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers

  • Noah Amir Arjomand, Indiana University
  • Book:
    Fixing Stories
    Published online:
    18 March 2022
    Print publication:
    17 February 2022, pp 1-10

  • Summary

    In this Introduction, we meet two fixer–reporter teams who cover the same event – a terrorism attack in Istanbul – in very different ways. Fixers are news contributors who assist foreign reporters by arranging, translating, and otherwise mediating between them and local news sources. Depending on a fixer’s background, aspirations, and relationship with their client reporter, they can shape the news in significant ways. To understand how and why fixers shape the news, attention to political, historical, and biographical contexts of newsmaking is essential. The Introduction goes on to explain that the fixer and reporter characters who appear in this book are composite characters created from data collected through ethnographic research.