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UE de ses citoyens, mais comment ?">Rapprocher l’UE de ses citoyens, mais comment ?
Article rédigé le 7 juillet 2011
Le « déficit démocratique » de l’Union européenne
Comment rapprocher l’Europe de ses citoyens et réduire le « déficit démocratique » de l’Union et ses institutions ? Que faire pour renforcer la « démocratie représentative », c’est-à-dire améliorer l’image et la …
Le Soir’s probe on media independance: can we be both judge and defendant?
On February 2012, the Belgian newspaper Le Soir inquired into taboos of Belgian society. Among other topics, net surfers asked the newspaper to investigate Media’ s independence. In the panel of interviewees, a majority came from media …
Social and civic media: from mediatisation to mediation
What we generally do when we speak about media is analyse their role as government’s supporter/government’s tool, or on the contrary, as a full force of opposition. In each case, media and political players both monopolise …
De Tijd e-paper experiment
The « press crisis » has been ongoing for more than twenty years now. It has to be said here that this crisis mainly concerns the daily newspapers. In Belgium, the publishers rely on state funds to keep their newspapers alive. Every year, the French-speaking Community allocates €6.2 millions to the daily newspapers.
Help me investigate
“There are two millions ways to do it in the wrong manner, but one million to do it in the good manner” uses to say Peter O’Donnell, associate editor for European Voice. Helpmeinvestigate.com is definitely …
Press: are we condemned to say goodbye?
In a recent interview for the Swiss daily La Tribune, the President of the World Intellectual Property Organisation, Francis Gurry, declared that ‘ in a few years, we won’t find newspapers anymore, not as we know them …
Plongée dans le débat sur les prix du journalisme européen
The end of the European Parliament prize for journalism, announced one month ago, relaunched the debate on European institutions’ action towards journalists.
A new task for the European Audiovisuel Observatory?
I recently came across the French sociologist Patrick Champagne’s introduction to one edition of the review Actes, dedicated to relations between journalism and economy.
Patrick Champagne explains how journalism is the first social circle that took …
Anne-Marie Impe: “For a permanent education journalism”
Cofounder, director and editor of the review Enjeux internationaux for five years, Anne-Marie Impe works today for the launch of an on line magazine and is writing a book in support of a “permanent education journalism”. …
Local level European journalism? The best way to interest people in European matters
While people think too often that European journalism is something complicated and indomitable, it can actually be really close to people. Because almost everything around us is linked in a way to Europe and its policies. …
The French journalists’ blues
A majority of French journalists fear for their jobs and the future of their profession according to a joint study by a private company specialised in evaluating societal risks – Technologia – and France’s biggest journalists’ trade union, SNJ.
The study, titled …
Local level European journalism: a worthwhile challenge
Local level European journalism meets two journalists’ challenges : a democratic challenge and an economic one.
The democratic challenge
You may or may not be a fan of the European Union. But there is no denying that it affects our …



