Title Fixing stories : local newsmaking and international media in Turkey and Syria / Noah Amir Arjomand, Indiana University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps Series The global Middle East ; 19 Global Middle East (Cambridge, England) ; 19. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Reviews -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures & Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers -- Part I Beginnings -- Noah -- Between Worlds -- Orhan -- Nur -- Karim -- Habib -- Elif -- Order and Chaos -- Part II Fitting In -- Are Fixers Journalists? -- Elif and José -- Elif and Burcu -- Orhan -- Karim -- Nur and lsmet -- Habib -- The Fixer's Paradox -- 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 -- Communication as Information -- Zeynep -- Solmaz -- Orhan -- Solmaz -- Noah -- Michael and Noah (Day 1) -- Michael and Noah (Day 2) -- Michael and Noah (Day 3) -- The Chains of Narrative -- Part V From Local to Global -- Strategic Ambiguity -- Leyla and Aziz -- Orhan -- Burcu, Elif, and Solmaz -- Nur -- Karim and Habib -- José -- Temel and Noah -- Coda: Filling in the Blanks -- Appendix: Sociological Fiction -- Truth and Fiction -- Step One: Compression -- Step Two: Remixing -- Checking the Truth of Fiction The Composite Compromise -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index Summary "It was 2016, and Istanbul was a boom town for correspondents reporting on the European refugee crisis, the Syrian civil war, the Kurdish conflict, jihadist terrorism, and Turkey's own controversial president. It was also a boom town for the fixers who assisted those foreign correspondents. The author learned, as a researcher, that there was a semi-formal label for such people and considered for the first time that they were providing a form of labor that merited remuneration. He also learned, when he hired a political science student at one of Istanbul's English language universities from a list, that different fixers are helpful in different ways: recommend sources, translate, provide background information. This work will provide information about them."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 07, 2022) Subject Foreign news. Foreign news -- Turkey -- 21st century Foreign news -- Syria -- 21st century Reporters and reporting -- Turkey Reporters and reporting -- Syria POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General. Foreign news Reporters and reporting Syria Turkey Form Electronic book LC no. 2021039466 ISBN 9781009059015 1009059017 9781009049337 100904933X

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