INTERVIEW
The raw material was huge, the selection work was intense: the young journalists of the Zola magazine, to appear, exhumed 75 years of archives of the World , with three million articles, to extract only thirty, gathered at the in a box compiling four small books, The Hidden Treasures of the World (Editions Eyrolles, 29.90 euros). Antoine Corlay, journalist of the magazine Zola , and the great reporter Florence Aubenas came on the set of Culture Media , Thursday morning, to talk about the microphone Philippe Vandel the colossal work they have done.
Inverted roles
The original idea emanates from this group of journalists aged 25 to 27, who rely on a "literary journalism", with the desire to "romance news and offer depth," says Antoine Corlay. Hence their goal of building "a magazine with long reports on topics of society giving way to a fairly sharp literary style".
" When a young person comes to you and says 'I want to get into the press', we obviously want to kiss them ""The current context (of the press) is not so good," concedes Florence Aubenas. "So, when a young person comes to see you saying 'I love the print media, and I want to get into it', we obviously want to kiss them and we wondered what project we could do together. And instead of choking them, showing them what we do, we reversed the roles to ask them what they thought. "
"Talking" subjects
Young journalists have searched Dantesque archives, rich of three million "papers", to compile thirty in four small books for as many themes: money, hope, the Earth and the people. Side criteria, "it took a certain length, with a certain style, and he 'speaks', he has an echo". So much for the bottom. And the form? "A software allows to search by keywords, by author.We looked for random subjects, such as glaciers or shanty towns," says Antoine Corlay.