Dark Side of News Fixing - The Culture Political Economy of Global Media in Pakistan

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.

List of contents

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.

About the author

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. 

Product details

• Authors: Syed Irfan Ashraf
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2021
• EAN: 9781839981371
• ISBN: 978-1-83998-137-1
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Anthem Global Media and Communication Studies
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Miscellaneous; Media Studies, Social Science, Asia, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Politics and government, Colonialism and imperialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / Asian Studies, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity