Fixers, Stringers, and Foreign Crews:
The distribution of risks and emotions in crisis reporting
About
Mass media provide full coverage of conflicts worldwide. However, little is known about the locals working behind the scenes assisting foreign media. The Fixers and Stringers project coordinated by the University of Amsterdam investigates the collaboration, emotions, and power relations among reporters, producers, fixers, and stringers working for foreign media in Israel/Palestine and Ukraine.
This website is a place where you can find the latest project-related updates, but also a venue where fixers, producers, stringers, and other reporters can publish their stories.
F&S Ukraine podcast
In this series of podcasts, we talk to a range of people and organisations involved in journalism and journalist safety about the things freelancers need to know in order to navigate reporting in Ukraine more safely.
Recent posts
A war lesson: The reform of journalism will be feminist
By Johana Kotišová. Originally published by Revue Prostor (in Czech). From objectivity to the abyss…
“We will deal with it after the victory:” The mounting emotional toll of Ukrainian off-stage media professionals
By Johana Kotišová. Originally published by MO* (in Dutch). “I would compare…
Book Review: The Dark Side of News Fixing
The review of Syed Irfan Ashraf’sThe Dark Side of News Fixing: The…
Covering Russia’s War on Ukraine: Local Media Professionals and Open-Source Investigators
Global conflicts are increasingly documented and covered by people outside of the…
Fixers & Stringers Newsletter 2
The Fixers & Stringers research project – focused on the collaboration among…
The epistemic injustice in conflict reporting: Reporters and ‘fixers’ covering Ukraine, Israel, and Palestine
By Johana Kotišová, available here. This paper investigates the epistemic injustice in…