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Jørgen Skrubbeltrang is an anthropologist with a PhD in Journalism from Roskilde University (2014). The PhD-dissertation is an anthropological investigation of Danish correspondents in the Middle East. The research deals with one of the basic assumptions of foreign correspondence – that presence creates credibility – and challenges the perception of the correspondent as an eyewitness. He focuses on journalistic praxis and the creation of reality.
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February 24, 2015 •
Research, Short stories •
by Jørgen Skrubbeltrang
In modern foreign news reporting a ‘fixer’ is becoming as essential to the journalistic process as a foreign correspondent. Without a fixer – a local person hired to help with logistics, contacts and translation – the...
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