It’s Always the Fixer Who Dies: Interesting Times

It’s difficult not to feel a certain bitterness about the death of Sultan Munadi. He was what journalists call a “fixer,” the local man or woman who helps the foreign correspondent. The help takes every conceivable form: interpreting, finding the phone number of the Iraqi member of parliament, knowing the personal history of the Afghan battalion commander, setting up interviews, hiring a car and driver, figuring out where to get food on a long drive ... Full Story »

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Jim Lang
4.3
by Jim Lang - Sep. 12, 2009

This is an interesting and thoughtful discourse on the relationship between a foreign correspondent and his native "fixer" -- an individual that is essential, very vulnerable and too often expendable.

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