Media: when investigative journalism asserts itself locally

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Mediacites.fr

By: Steven Jambot Follow |

Simon Decreuze Follow

37 min

The Media Workshop is interested in investigative journalism at the local level, in France, with the example of Mediacités.fr.

This independent media exists in four French metropolises and claims its participatory and public utility approach.

Publicity

At the start of the program, we start by talking about Project Daphne.

On October 16, 2017, investigative journalist

Daphne Caruana Galizia was murdered

.

A bomb had been placed in his car, near his home in Malta.

She was working on corruption cases involving senior Maltese officials.

For three years, thanks to donations, the

Forbidden Stories

collective

, bringing together 45 journalists from 18 countries, has continued the work started by Daphne Caruana Galizia.

Friday October 16, 2020, new revelations were published in several European media.

As the Daphne Project caption says, “ 

They killed the reporter, but not her investigations.

 "

Mediacities: meeting with Jacques Trentesaux

Mediacités

is an investigative medium present in four large French cities: Lilles, Lyon, Nantes and Toulouse.

We met this week in Paris one of its co-founders, who is also the editorial director.

Jacques Trentsaux 

insists on the journalism he defends: independent, of public utility, participatory and transparent.

At the end of the program,

Mondoblog audio

gives the floor to Cameroonian blogger 

Ecclésiaste Deudjui

.

He denounces the all-out promises of Cameroonian politicians during their electoral campaigns.

Their commitments are just lies since nothing ever changes on the ground, he explains.

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