Anna Aslanyan & Daniel Trilling on translation in reportage
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Are You a Fixer or a Translator?
i wonder what your sense is as to how picky these people who are being parachuted in from wherever they were in the world. i suspect almost nobody from the international news organizations there at the moment speaks eucranian, very, very few of them, if any. And so it's a place where people will be very reliant on fixes and interpreters. There's more of a discussion about the ethics of using fixus but thas fos he other part of it, you're hiring people with professional skills,. not simply that they speak a language and might know people. For instance, er whas is a very disturbing story, but a journalist who writes for the guardian about
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