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Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

Stringers and the Journalistic Field: Marginalities and Precarious News Labour in Small-Town India

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Series: Ethnographic Innovations, South Asian Perspectives

Writing InstructionAnthropologyGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 1032438959
ISBN13: 9781032438955
Publisher: Routledge India
Published: Oct 9 2024
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.67
Height: 0.45 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

This book is one of the first ethnographic works on small-town stringers or informal news workers in Indian journalism. It explores existing practices and cultures in the field of local journalism and the roles and spaces stringers occupy.

The book outlines the caste, gender, class and region-based biases in the production of Indian-language journalism with a specific focus on stringers working in Telugu dailies in small towns or 'mofussil' areas of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, states in south India. Further, it captures their daily work and processes of news production, and the precarious lives they often lead while working in small towns or mofussils. The author, by using Bourdieu's field theory, introduces the journalistic practices of stringers working on the margins and how they negotiate the complex hierarchies that exist within the journalistic field and outside it.

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