Fixing stories : local newsmaking and international media in Turkey and Syria / Noah Amir Arjomand, Indiana University.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Arjomand, Noah Amir, author.

Series:

• Global Middle East (Cambridge, England) ; 19.
• The global Middle East ; 19

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Foreign news.
• Reporters and reporting--Syria.
• Reporters and reporting--Turkey.
• Foreign news--Syria--21st century.
• Foreign news--Turkey--21st century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 355 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

Summary:

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, Gezi Park protest movement, rise of authoritarianism in Turkey and 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.

Contents:

• Cover
• Half-title
• Reviews
• Series information
• Title page
• Copyright information
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of Figures &
• Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: A Tale of Two Fixers
• Part I Beginnings
• Noah
• Between Worlds
• Orhan
• Nur
• Karim
• Habib
• Elif
• Order and Chaos
• Part II Fitting In
• Are Fixers Journalists?
• Elif and José
• Elif and Burcu
• Nur and lsmet
• The Fixer's Paradox
• Part III Moral Worlds of Ambivalence and Bias
• A Fragmented World
• Burcu
• José and Zeynep
• Aziz
• Unifying Worlds
• Part IV Translations
• Communication as Information
• Zeynep
• Solmaz
• Michael and Noah (Day 1)
• Michael and Noah (Day 2)
• Michael and Noah (Day 3)
• The Chains of Narrative
• Part V From Local to Global
• Strategic Ambiguity
• Leyla and Aziz
• Burcu, Elif, and Solmaz
• Karim and Habib
• José
• Temel and Noah
• Coda: Filling in the Blanks
• Appendix: Sociological Fiction
• Truth and Fiction
• Step One: Compression
• Step Two: Remixing
• Checking the Truth of Fiction
• The Composite Compromise
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 21 Mar 2022).

Other Format:

Print version: Arjomand, Noah Amir Fixing Stories

ISBN:

• 1-009-05881-9
• 1-009-04933-X
• 1-009-05901-7