When a news contributor’s social and moral link to the field of international journalism tightens, they gain greater frame control, more moral sway to change their foreign colleagues’ minds. Yet at the same time, the moral drive to challenge those foreign colleagues with frame-breaking information and the capacity to access fresh perspectives weaken as that contributor’s dispositions, social network, and field of vision align with their foreign teammates’. We might call this the Producer’s Paradox, the flip side of the Fixer’s Paradox.