Syed Irfan Ashraf

The Dark Side of News Fixing

The Culture and Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan and Afghanistan

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Produktbeschreibung

This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. Fixers are local journalists hired to help global media outlets in developing news stories on wars. The book shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing unprecedented deaths of the local reporters in the context of the U.S-led war on terror.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 548g
• ISBN-13: 9781839981371
• ISBN-10: 1839981377
• Artikelnr.: 62793368

Autorenporträt

Irfan Ashraf has a PhD in mass communication and media arts (MCMA) from the Southern Illinois University, Carbondale and is an assistant professor at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar, Pakistan. 

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures
About the Author
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One Laying Bare the Malala Story: Some Tough and Painful Reflections on the "Fixer" Role
Chapter Two The "Fixer": Journalism's Dark Secret
Chapter Three Pashtuns as Potential "Fixers": News Work in a State of War
Chapter Four The Afghan Beat: Journalism as War
Chapter Five The "Fixer": Local Labor, Global Media
Chapter Six Buying Low, Selling High: The Hunt for Bin Laden
Chapter Seven Impunity: The New Normal
Chapter Eight Reporting with Marx
Appendix
Notes
Bibliography
Index.