Covid-19: scientific information and conspiracy theories
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A workshop during the Couthures-sur-Garonne International Journalism Festival, early July 2021 © RFI / Pauline Linard-Cazanave
By: Steven Jambot Follow |
Pauline Linard-Cazanave Follow |
Simon Decreuze Follow |
Juliette Labracherie Follow
58 mins
The Couthures-sur-Garonne International Journalism Festival was held in early July.
The media workshop
offers on-site interviews with a researcher and a science journalist.
They returned to the infodemic that accompanied the coronavirus pandemic.
Publicity
After
Epic
and
Usbek & Rica
last week
, two new mooks are in the spotlight this week at the start of
The Media Workshop:
Far Ouest
, whose first issue was published in April 2021, but which is initially a local and independent online media.
Through long formats,
Far Ouest
questions the world and tells about our time from the southwest of France.
Flo Laval
, director of publication, and editor-in-chief
Clémence Postis
explain his concept
Pays
, published in March 2021 after a campaign that brought together some 200 subscribers.
Each issue portrays a French territory.
Manon Boquen
, co-founder of Pays, specifies the ambitions of her journal, particularly in terms of investigation
The second part of the show takes place in Couthures-sur-Garonne, by the river of the same name, in the south-west of France.
It is a small village in which 350 inhabitants live year round.
But every summer for the past five years, hundreds of people have gathered there for the International Journalism Festival, organized by the newspaper group
Le Monde
.
The ambition of this festival is to allow journalists to discuss their profession and their investigations with the public.
This year, it was notably a question of the journalistic treatment of the Covid-19 pandemic.
For the media workshop, Pauline Linard-Cazanave conducted interviews with some of the speakers:
Yves Sciama
, independent journalist, vice-president of the Association of scientific journalists.
Julien Giry
, political science researcher at the University of Tours, explains how the coronavirus pandemic has had an accelerating effect on conspiracy theories.
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