Olivier Standaert

Quelle Différence?: Language, culture and nationality as influences on francophone journalists’ identity

Canada, Belgium and Switzerland are multicultural countries with several similarities including having French as a minority language. The trio also shares similar media landscapes, systems and approaches to journalism to those of other Western European and Northern American countries. These commonalities offer an opportunity to probe for the possibility of a language-based differentiation in journalists’ professional identities. Our comparative analysis of Worlds of Journalism Study data suggests that francophone journalists in our three countries have much more in common than not with their other-language peers. However, the francophone journalists seem more likely to identify with a politicized role that includes agenda-setting, citizen-motivation and scrutinizing power, and less likely to be driven by attracting and satisfying audiences. A différence francophone exists, but it is modest.

La gestion du recrutement des journalistes dans les télévisions locales francophones de Belgique. Places assignées et formes identitaires à l’entrée du marché du travail

Cette etude eclaire l’assignation des tâches a l’entree du marche des televisions locales belges, ainsi que les formes identitaires des acteurs. Elle demontre l’influence des logiques de socialisation sur les trajectoires professionnelles dans un contexte de rarefaction des postes a duree indeterminee.