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Publication details [#49940]
Palmer, Jerry and Victoria Fontan. 2007. ‘Our ears and our eyes’. Journalists and fixers in Iraq. Journalism 8 (1) : 5–24. ![DOI logo](https://benjamins.com/logos/doi-logo.svg)
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Place, Publisher
SAGE Publications
Journal WWW
Annotation
This paper discusses the dependence upon fixers and in particular ‘parachute’ journalists, in the light of changes in Western media's foreign -in casu Iraqi- news gathering. Since 2003, the security situation has changed drastically, and few Western journalists possess a professional competence level in Arabic.