Friday, 19 July 2024

JRNLST X FIXER

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journalistic parlance, a fixer. A fixer arranges interviews, interprets, ferrets out information from reluctant officials, provides juicy anecdotes, takes photos, gets coffee, and sometimes writes articles. In other words, fixers do most of the correspondent’s work for no credit and little pay. Some might find this unfair, even unethical. Perhaps, but the fixer/correspondent relationship has a long and proud tradition

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