Un Bout du Monde: Julia Cagé's bet for media independence

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The Un Bout du Monde association promotes the citizen reconquest of French-speaking news media.

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Juliette Labracherie

33 mins

The French economist Julia Cagé is running a crowdfunding campaign in France to bring citizens and journalists into the capital of the Le Monde group.

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Julia Cagé

teaches economics at Sciences Po Paris, she specializes in media economics.

In January 2020, she took over the presidency of the Society of Readers of

newspaper

.

had received her in the spring to talk about media in “the world after”.

Julia Cagé is a woman of conviction, the type to go after things.

She got it into her head to apply the ideas imagined in her books.

Thus, last July, she launched, with the association Un bout du Monde that she chairs, a

 to “contribute to the defense of the independence of the Le Monde group”.

How? 'Or' What ?

By entering its capital so that journalists and citizens are represented.

And at the start of the program, Juliette Labracherie presents

, a new Algerian news site.

Its co-founder

clarifies its positioning.

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is signed by the Mauritanian journalist and blogger

who deplores the state of the news media in his country.

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