Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
Hostname: page-component-6bf8c574d5-mcfzb Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-03-09T15:21:02.488Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Are Fixers Journalists?

from Part II - Fitting In

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 March 2022

Noah Amir Arjomand
Noah Amir Arjomand
Affiliation:
Indiana University
Get access

Summary

The role of the intermediary bridging disparate worlds is not new. Centuries before fixers mediated between journalists and sources, dragoman diplomats (from tercüman: translator) mediated between European states and Ottoman sultans (Lewis 2004). Oft-stigmatized “middleman minorities” and “edge people” have long found themselves in the role of bridges between worlds: Christians in the Middle East (most dragomans were ethnic Greeks), Chinese in Southeast Asia, Indians in East Africa, Jews in Europe, mixed-race people in colonial settings, upwardly mobile members of marginalized communities, immigrants and refugees everywhere (Bonacich 1973; Ong 1999; Lewis 2004; Pattillo 2007: 113–147; Yannakakis 2008; Judt 2010).

Type
Chapter
Information
Fixing Stories
Local Newsmaking and International Media in Turkey and Syria
 , pp. 47 - 52
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

Save book to Kindle

To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure no-reply@cambridge.org is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.

Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.

Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.

Available formats
×

Save book to Dropbox

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.

Available formats
×

Save book to Google Drive

To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.

Available formats
×