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
Aziz
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
Conflict between the respective interests of journalists and locals is clearest when people on whom journalists want to report would rather kill or ransom them. Between 2012 and 2014, numerous journalists were targeted by militants in Syria. Some ended up in ISIS custody. Initially, there was a blackout on media coverage of these abductions, in a later-controversial consensus that reportage could compromise negotiations for release. But in 2014, ISIS released beheading videos of freelance reporters James Foley and Steven Sotloff, which made headlines around the world (Simon 2014).
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- Fixing StoriesLocal Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria, pp. 157 - 161Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022