2024-04-04 13:55:42
By Claudia Cohen
Published 34 minutes ago, Updated now
More than 27,000 full-time equivalents are employed in the mainstream media (excluding news agencies and professional press) to produce information, including nearly 58% permanent journalists and 18% freelancers. Christian Schwier / stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – Presented as part of the General States of Information (EGI), this unprecedented study on the costs incurred by the media does not, however, take into account those linked to printing and distribution for the written press.
« The question of the economic model is essential at a time when we are seeing an impoverishment of information and its main producers, the media. », proclaimed Thursday morning Bruno Patino, president of Arte and president of the steering committee of the States General of Information (EGI). In France, how much does information production cost? It is this complex question that the EGI finally attempted to answer in a new study, three months before the publication of their conclusions.
Since the launch last fall of this titanic project desired by President Emmanuel Macron, many participants and observers have wondered whether the debates, tinged at the outset with political and activist concerns, would be up to the challenges of an information sector in great economic difficulty. « Since day one, our priority has been to focus on the means available to the media essential to democracy, because it is impossible to speak…
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