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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