Fixers are a correspondent's eyes, ears and warning system on the ground, but do they get the recognition they deserve?
Ever watched a foreign correspondent dodging live bullets in the field? Or come across shaky camera footage with a reporter fleeing from the scene? The answer - if you've seen a lot of international news packages, particularly from hostile environments - will most probably be yes.
But what you haven't necessarily seen is the team behind the camera: the cameraman, the producer, the driver and especially, the fixer.
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