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

Acknowledgements

A note on translation, transliteration, language, and style

1. Introduction: Studying small-town stringers
2. Locating the stringer: Social and political scaffoldings
3. Masculinity and missing women in the journalistic field
4. Dispositions and recruitment patterns of agents
5. Roles and/as hierarchies
6. The logic of local journalistic practice
7. Informality, precarity, and news labour
8. Conclusion: Newswork in the time of pandemic

Steering clear of well-funded newsrooms and glitzy TV studios in metropoles, this book provides a deeply researched and beautifully written account of journalism in mofussil India. Through carefully observed and richly detailed accounts of stringers,