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Discussion Exercise I: Local Hands, International News
After reading Amahl Bishara's "Local hands, international news: Palestinian journalists and the international media", please answer the following questions:
1. How do Palestinian journalists serve foreign journalists ("international correspondents")? Why are they needed?
2. How do the contributions of Palestinian journalists as cultural brokers affect the stories that get constructed?
3. How is the everyday work of Palestinian journalists different from what they do for foreign journalists?
4. Why is the contribution of Palestinian journalists to the newsmaking process rarely credited?
5. What does Bishara seem to mean when she distinguished between "knowledge production" and "editorial position"?
6. Does the description of the way journalism gets done differ from what you expect when you think about international news reporting? Why or why not?