"The appetite for information" on the Tours Journalism Conference programme
"Finding an appetite for information", such was the common theme running through this edition of Tours. The various actors within the profession convened to discuss professional practices at a time when the quality of information, mistrust on the part of the public and the questioning of the status of the journalist in contemporary debate are regularly documented by experts. Plenaries and various workshops facilitated discussions on fake news, anxiety-provoking information, precariousness within newsrooms, new formats and emerging trends, as well as information fatigue. Over the course of these three days in Tours, the IHECS students were able to talk to journalists, various actors from the institutional and associative world. This immersion also allowed the students to deploy their know-how in terms of audiovisual production, with a series of interviews in front of the camera and the production of two radio broadcasts live from the workshop at the event. A rigorous and serious agenda organised by the entire group present in Tours. The next meeting, the Tunis Conference, takes place in the autumn.
Text by Nordine Nabili, Head of the Department of Journalism
