The dark side of news fixing the culture and political economy of global media in Pakistan and Afghanistan

This book provides a local journalist's perspective on a four-decade long regional contribution to global news production. It shows how the fixers' risky news pursuits made possible for global media to access distant regions and dangerous caves on Pakistan and Afghanistan borders, causing...

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