The thankless work of a 'fixer'

• Autores: Andrew Bossone
• Localización: Columbia Journalism Review, ISSN-e 0010-194X, Vol. 53, Nº. 1, 2014, págs. 24-25
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Foreign journalists usually find fixers from colleagues in the area or through online forums and groups like Facebook's "Vulture Club." In the Middle East, fixers are essentially journalists but, all too often, they receive little or no recognition, even when they are entirely responsible for the scoops credited to their foreign peers. These people aren't mere translators who provide a service in exchange for payment. Here, Bossone shares how a fixer helped him in his work as a foreign journalist in Egypt.