Section: Media
How «Le Peuple» designed an RTS Observatory 

How «Le Peuple» designed an RTS Observatory 

With Agora, the French-language media outlet «Le Peuple» has launched an unprecedented observatory of RTS news production, based on a public, reproducible methodology. Journalist Raphaël Pomey describes the genesis, results and democratic issues involved. 
Greek audiovisual tragedy 

Greek audiovisual tragedy 

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. 
The overestimated power of the media

The overestimated power of the media

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.