While war reportages, tackling authoritarian regimes and subverting censorship have rightfully gained audience and newsroom attention, many important stories from the Global South go missing. To count...
Rajesh Prabhakar
fixer
Rajesh Prabhakar is an Indian fixer and has worked with over 30 major international projects including with National Geographic and the BBC. As a local fixer with expertise and contacts in Asia's largest slum Dharavi, Rajesh has been instrumental in researching for various documentaries, feature stories, and books including Joseph Campana's Dharavi, My Home. Currently, Rajesh is the co-founder of South Asia News Network along with another journalist and is focused on building the platform.
For more information on Rajesh's activities, see the NYT article The fixers of Dharavi.
Journalists rely on fixers as much as a politician relies on his voters! Weird analogy, right? From reporting in war zones to threatened democracies, journalists and news organizations rely on fixers...
