Reporting Global While Being Local—Commentary for Special Issue of Journalism Studies

Jukes, Stephen

doi:10.1080/1461670x.2019.1636706

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“…There is also a growing body of work drawing on interviews with (people who self-identify as) fixers to examine long-standing assumptions about the role and agency of local news workers in news production and 'to start making sense of their work largely from their own perspectives and perceptions' (Mitra andPaterson 2019, 1674-75). Even as tensions, discrepancies and inequalities between local and distant journalistic practices persist (Plaut and Klein Peter 2019;Jukes 2019), the potential for those very differences to contribute to more dialogic, mutually collaborative and ethical global newsmaking practices is beginning to be recognised and advocated (Mitra and Paterson 2019).…”

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The “contrôleuse”: recognising the role of the “fixer” in academic and media NGO development partnerships

Heywood

Harding²

2021

Development in Practice

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Successful NGO development and academic partnerships have, at their core, effective intercultural and multilingual communication and translation practices and processes, including critical recognition of the role of 'fixers', who act as the 'interface' between local participants and academic NGO impact-assessment researchers. Examining what we call the 'contrôleuse' in development research projects in Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger, we show the need, as in journalism, to critically interrogate this intermediary role. Identifying and incorporating the role into research funding and design can be a simple and practical contribution towards challenging inequalities, including contrôleuse perspectives and increasing participatory impact-assessment and development practices.

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The “contrôleuse”: recognising the role of the “fixer” in academic and media NGO development partnerships

Heywood

Harding²

2021

Development in Practice

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“…The complexity of these ecosystems of foreign/conflict news production has also become more visible and transparent to the general public due to the evacuations of media fixers from Afghanistan in 2021 (Free Press Unlimited, 2021) and within the context of the Russian invasion of Ukraine since February 2022, especially of the death of Oleksandra Kuvshinova working for Fox News (BBC, 2022). However, the discussion on ‘fixers’ and ‘local producers’ still has many blind spots (Jukes, 2019). Especially some of the more subtle and complex – though not less unjust – hierarchies in the social epistemology of conflict news production (Kotišová and Deuze, 2022) remain to be explored and criticized – which is the aim of this paper.…”

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The epistemic injustice in conflict reporting: Reporters and ‘fixers’ covering Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine

Kotišová

2023

Journalism

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This paper investigates the epistemic injustice in conflict reporting, where foreign parachute reporters collaborate with local producers and ‘fixers.’ Drawing from existing research on ‘fixers’ and other media professionals covering conflict zones and the philosophy of emotion and knowledge, I address the following questions: What is the role of local and foreign media professionals’ affective proximity and professional distance in the social epistemology of conflict news production and the epistemic hierarchy among the collaborators? What implications is this particular social epistemology believed to have for conflict reporting accuracy and ethics? Based on 36 semi-structured to in-depth interviews with foreign and local media professionals covering Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine and further online and offline contact with the Ukrainian ecosystem of foreign/conflict news production, I argue that the collaboration between foreign and local media professionals is sometimes marked by identity-prejudicial credibility deficit granted to local media professionals because of their affective proximity to the events they cover. This epistemic injustice mirrors other power vectors and the dominant journalistic professional ideology that values disinvolvement, distance, and detachment. In practice, the (local) media professionals’ affective proximity to their contexts is often appreciated as embodied knowledge beneficial to the nuance, accuracy, and ethics of journalistic practices and outcomes.

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Decolonizing Conflict Journalism Studies: A Critical Review of Research on Fixers

Kotišová

Deuze

2022

Journalism Studies

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Reporting Global While Being Local—Commentary for Special Issue of Journalism Studies

Cited by 4 publications

References 5 publications

The “contrôleuse”: recognising the role of the “fixer” in academic and media NGO development partnerships

The “contrôleuse”: recognising the role of the “fixer” in academic and media NGO development partnerships

The epistemic injustice in conflict reporting: Reporters and ‘fixers’ covering Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine

Decolonizing Conflict Journalism Studies: A Critical Review of Research on Fixers

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