This two-part project brings to light the difficult but underappreciated work of fixers and local producers. These are the local media professionals who accompany foreign media and journalists in the war zone.
In an initial report, journalists Johana Kotišová and Peter van Goethem examine the heavy emotional toll of these local media professionals who accompany foreign reporters covering the Russian invasion in their own communities. Meanwhile, they are of necessity postponing their own traumas.
In the second report, journalists share fixers' and producers' experiences with hierarchies in war reporting and risk outsourcing. It is an account of a surreal journey through a country where business as usual overlaps with the uncanny.
