Stringers and the Journalistic Field

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.

Nimmagadda Bhargav is a faculty member in the communications at the Indian Institute of Management, Indore, India. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Hyderabad's Department of Communication and was a postdoctoral research assistant on an Arts and Humanities Research Council and UKRI-funded project led by Loughborough University.

Acknowledgements A note on translation, transliteration, language, and style - Introduction: Studying small-town stringers - Locating the stringer: Social and political scaffoldings - Masculinity and missing women in the journalistic field - Dispositions and recruitment patterns of agents - Roles and/as hierarchies - The logic of local journalistic practice - Informality, precarity, and news labour - Conclusion: Newswork in the time of pandemic Index