Les médias, et le journalisme au premier plan, ont pris une importance sociale déterminante ces dernières années. Tout laisse croire que les transformations économiques, sociales et technologiques en cours vont accentuer le pouvoir social des médias et de leurs journalistes, tout comme leur mise en en cause constante de la part de nombreux acteurs sociaux,…
“ The 13 journalists claim that Kul Al-Watan, an online newspaper previously known as Hedayah Net, published a story saying that Saudi women journalists resort to drugs, prostitution, alcohol and unlawful relations to reach high positions in their profession. The complaints were sent to the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Culture and Information, the…
Vendredi 20 mars 2009 Une trentaine d’années après le documentaire Derrière l’image, le professeur Florian Sauvageau et le cinéaste Jacques Godbout proposent Derrière la Toile, qui traite de nouvelles pratiques journalistiques à l’heure d’Internet. Puisque le web est en constante évolution, ils ne tombent pas dans le piège de répondre à la question « ce…
Should journalists participate in the rebranding of swine flu? “It is not a ‘swine’ flu, and people need to stop calling it that,” Dave Warner of the National Pork Producers Council told CNN. “They’re ruining people’s lives.” Actually, under the rules of flu nomenclature, viruses are named after where they are first found, according to…
“American Community Newspapers (ACN) — publisher of the Stillwater (Minn.) Gazette and Plano (Texas) Star Courier plus dozens of non-dailies in four states — said late Tuesday it had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.”
“The way to think about the problems facing the news industry is to think about future of journalism and not to obsess about business models, Alan Rusbridger told an audience at Queen Mary, University of London, last night.”
“Our colleagues at The Wall Street Journal tell us that small, community newspapers are proving to be the little engine that could of the media industry. As larger, metropolitan papers pile up in the print graveyard, these local gems are steadily moving along, garnering enough advertisements to keep them on track.”
“Alan Rusbridger is the editor-in-chief of The Guardian, easily one of the most prestigious newspapers in the English-speaking world, and is widely admired as a journalist’s journalist. At the same time, he has also been one of the driving forces behind making his newspaper a leader online, which has involved embracing community — including ground-breaking…
“The question at hand actually was about the rise of the “commentary” class in America and how it has overshadowed the “journalist” class, and how that shapes the country. But why answer that question when we can talk about our favorite topic: The Future!!! Just like the transparency/torture debate spill along Republican/Democrat divisions, the Future…
“MSNBC.com has quietly launched an experiment that re-engineers how Web stories are consumed. Here’s Craig Saila, an interactive designer at MSNBC.com, describing the changes:”