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Last week, Fox News announced that cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski had been killed and correspondent Benjamin Hall injured by incoming fire on the outskirts of Kyiv. Among local journalists, however, word spread that a third team member had also lost her life: Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova, a 24-year-old Ukrainian national.
Long-simmering tensions boiled to the surface over international news organizations' treatment of local "fixers" like Kuvshynova. These journalists provide essential labor in gaining access to sources and making sense of events but are often second-class citizens within the profession.
Fixers are essential partners on foreign assignments. A good fixer builds trust with correspondents, helping them safely gain access and navigating local realities on the ground. But tensions can also arise over issues of editorial control, credits and fairness toward sources. Over the past decade, there has been a shift towards trying to use more local voices and value local producers the same way as foreign correspondents.
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