Why Africa is so little present in French TV news
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By: Steven Jambot Follow | Simon Decreuze Follow
The evening news programs in France speak little of Africa and often show images of a continent where instability reigns. The Media Workshop discusses this with a project manager at the INA and a media sociologist.
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The National Audiovisual Institute (INA), peeled a decade of news and published in late June a barometer on "Africa in the news" . From 2011 to 2019, Africa represented 5.4% of the information offered by French television channels. More than two thirds of the subjects dealt with the geopolitics of the continent, far ahead of the economy or health.
Two guests:
• Géraldine Poels is in charge of scientific development at the INA. With it, we come back to the main figures of the study, the way the INA worked and the way in which artificial intelligence will allow us to go further in the processing of data and images.
• Marie-France Malonga is a media sociologist. It provides elements of explanation for the low representation of Africa, in its diversity, in the news. It also analyzes the reasons for the poor image of the continent conveyed by French historical channels.
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