In 2013, crisis-stricken Greece abruptly shut down its public broadcasting system. Nicolas Brodard recounts the battle over ERT: social struggles, control of the narrative and the illusions of a public service reinvented under Greek austerity, in the heart of chaos.
Placed at the heart of a heated national debate on the licence fee, accused of ideological bias and condemned to make savings, Switzerland's public broadcasting system is going through a turbulent period. Pascal Crittin, head of the French-speaking part of the company, responds to the critics.
The news channel is overtaking BBC News Channel in terms of average audience in the UK, and is acting as a megaphone for red-wall England in a climate of growing distrust of public broadcasting.
Far from heralding the end of journalism, artificial intelligence can free newsrooms from mechanical tasks and offer more time for investigating, analyzing and polishing texts. On one condition.
To overestimate the power of the media is to underestimate the other reasons why people have ideas. It's not journalists who dictate the debate agenda, but a complex dynamic between senders and receivers.
The December 2024 issue of Regard Libre inaugurates a new paper. Recycled, less clinically white and more embossed, this material is consistent with our monthly feature, dedicated to the value of age, and marks the beginning of an evolution in our media.
Pierre Valentin is best known for dissecting the revolutionary nature of wokism in his first book, published last year by Gallimard. The 26-year-old essayist has since launched «Transmission», a YouTube channel to interest his generation in intellectuals.
In October 1992, the demise of the Alliance culturelle romande marked a turning point in the literary history of French-speaking Switzerland. Founded in 1962 by Myrian Weber-Perret, the Alliance culturelle romande was in decline following the death of its founder in 1985.
Every week or so, a major newspaper or a high-audience radio or TV station devotes a story to a sexual abuse, abduction or placement case involving a child. The problem? Only cases that involve the mother's pain are covered. Shocking.
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