"Information is a public good", a book to rebuild media ownership
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A newsstand during containment following the Covid-19 coronavirus epidemic on March 25, 2020 in Lyon, France.
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31 min
The Media Workshop
receives lawyer Benoît Huet.
He co-signs with economist Julia Cagé "Information is a public good", a book which calls for the re-founding of media ownership… and gives the keys to getting there.
Publicity
At the start of the program, the documentary
Je ne suis pas une salope, je suis une journalist
, broadcast Sunday March 21 on the French channel Canal +.
Signed by Marie Portolano and Guillaume Priou, it denounces the gender-based violence that sports journalists suffer in and outside their newsrooms.
This courageous film shows that some women in the media world sometimes find themselves in nauseating situations, for example within the - still very masculine - sports departments.
In the second part of this
Media Workshop
, we discuss the independence of the media while a phenomenon of media concentration in the hands of a few industrial shareholders is taking place in several countries, notably in France.
Benoît Huet
, lawyer, who published at
Le
Seuil with economist
Julia Cagé
the book
Information is a public good
, explains the modes of governance and shareholding of the media and presents a bill aimed at reforming the situation in France .
It is based on four principles: democratic governance, the generalization of the right of authorization, transparency of governance and shareholding, and finally a minimum size for editorial staff.
Finally we present the podcast
Correspondances, artisans of info
, offered by
CFI
, the French media development agency, a subsidiary of France Médias Monde.
It consists of ten interviews with personalities from the media world.
They come from Burma, Lebanon and Ivory Coast, like Anderson Diedri, who founded the Eburnie Today website in 2016, specializing in investigative journalism and fact-checking.
Mondoblog audio
comes to us this week from Burkina Faso where
Amos Traoré
explains that the agricultural world is turning to the model of agroecology because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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