Last updated on 21 February 2025
On the front page is a interactive webdocumentary produced by Réseau Canopé in partnership with the Clemi, which will allow you to slip into the clothes of a journalist from the daily newspaper Libération.
Ideal to address the press week at school 2016 which takes place this week. This 27th edition, like the previous ones, has the laudable ambition of helping pupils, from kindergarten to preparatory classes, to understand the media system, to form their critical judgment, to develop their taste for current events and to forge their identity as citizens. The WebDoc "A la Une" will help them better understand how a national daily works and discover a threatened profession, that of photojournalist.
In "A la Une", a subjective camera will accompany you in an internship at the newspaper Libération. You are lucky, Libé’s colleagues are not greedy in explanations and all the doors will open in front of you. Your tutor is Jean Pierre Perrin, great reporter at Libération who will welcome you and set you a mission to write a paper on the crisis of photojournalism.
By the way you will attend the editorial conference of the morning which fixes the topics of the newspaper of the next day. You're lucky you're sitting at the heads of department table. At each stage of this rather well-worn webdoc, the viewer has the choice of a linear reading or the possibility of obtaining additional explanations on a particular point via short video interviews of the people who compose the newspaper.
The drafting of the article entrusted to you goes even further by offering you a real dive into the sources necessary for writing an article. It is up to you to consult and choose the sources and type of article, but be careful your tutor is uncompromising about the quality and will refuse a paper that for example will not be sourced enough. The long day ends with the choice of the next day’s front page. There are a lot of steps and actors in the production of a newspaper but the general climate of a reaction is well rendered.
‘A la Une’ continues, as a reward, for the student who has managed to publish the article by a trip to Normadie for the Bayeux Correspondents' Prize He will be able to watch many interviews with photojournalists.
Playful and well realized, "A la Une" can be offered to your students without hesitation. It may raise vocations. The webdoc produced by the Canopé network does not hide anything about the difficulty of the job and the requirement to produce quality information. A representation of the profession that is quite close to its reality on a daily basis. We simply regret the impasse made by the director on the multimedia part of the production of information, which is now unavoidable in Libération, as in all other media.
Link: On the front page
Link: Press week at school
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Great your initiative! Thank you very much Fidel