Fixing Stories: Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria

News fixers are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists, playing a difficult but powerful role in shaping the creation of knowledge from behind the scenes. Noah Amir Arjomand's book Fixing Stories reflects on the nature of news production and cross-cultural mediation based on field research in Turkey.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 373 pages
Publication date: 30 March 2023
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

News fixers are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists. Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation of knowledge from behind the scenes. In Fixing Stories, Noah Amir Arjomand reflects on the nature of news production and cross-cultural mediation. Based on human stories drawn from three years of field research in Turkey, this book unfolds as a series of narratives of fixers' career trajectories during a period when the international media spotlight shone on Turkey and Syria. From the Syrian Civil War, the Gezi Park protest movement, the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey, and the rise of ISIS in Syria, to the rekindling of conflict in both countries' Kurdish regions and Turkey's 2016 coup attempt, Arjomand brings to light vivid personal accounts and insider perspectives on world-shaking events alongside analysis of the role fixers have played in bringing news of Turkey and Syria to international audiences.

News fixers are translators and guides who assist foreign journalists. Sometimes key contributors to bold, original reporting and other times key facilitators of homogeneity and groupthink in the news media, they play the difficult but powerful role of broker between worlds, shaping the creation of knowledge from behind the scenes. In Fixing Stories, Noah Amir Arjomand reflects on the nature of news production and cross-cultural mediation. Based on human stories drawn from three years of field research in Turkey, this book unfolds as a series of narratives of fixers' career trajectories during a period when the international media spotlight shone on Turkey and Syria. From the Syrian Civil War, the Gezi Park protest movement, the rise of authoritarianism in Turkey, and the rise of ISIS in Syria, to the rekindling of conflict in both countries' Kurdish regions and Turkey's 2016 coup attempt, Arjomand brings to light vivid personal accounts and insider perspectives on world-shaking events alongside analysis of the role fixers have played in bringing news of Turkey and Syria to international audiences.

Weight: 540g
Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781009048750