Book contents
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- A Fragmented World
- Noah
- Burcu
- Elif
- Nur
- Elif
- José and Zeynep
- Nur
- Aziz
- Karim
- Habib
- Unifying Worlds
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Noah
from Part III - Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 March 2022
- Fixing Stories
- Reviews
- The Global Middle East
- Fixing Stories
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures & Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
- Part I Beginnings
- Part II Fitting In
- Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
- A Fragmented World
- Noah
- Burcu
- Elif
- Nur
- Elif
- José and Zeynep
- Nur
- Aziz
- Karim
- Habib
- Unifying Worlds
- Part IV Translations
- Part V From Local to Global
- Appendix: Sociological Fiction
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
In 2016, I expanded my research methods from interviewing and observing reporters and fixers to working in both roles myself.1 Becoming a freelance reporter was as simple as pitching a story idea to a news outlet and hiring one of the fixers I knew to help me. I recruited multiple fixers for each story I reported so that I could compare how a change of brokers might lead me in a different direction. This was a luxury few reporters can afford. I was lucky to have my journalism subsidized by research funds from Columbia University and the National Science Foundation, because I lost money on every story I wrote.
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 109 - 118Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022