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Diversity of Journalisms. Proceedings of ECREA/CICOM Conference, Pamplona, 4-5 July 2011
This article presents an updated review of some discoveries in the field of disruptive
and emerging technologies and how they are faced by companies. The specialists in
new technologies have come to the conclusion that established companies should act
differently depending on whether the innovation with which they must deal is
incremental or radical. If companies do not act differently depending on the nature of
innovation that threatens them, they may lose their market share before new
competitors, more agile in finding unconventional customers that may be dissatisfied
with the current product offering.
The study of emerging technologies is useful to extract lessons that can be applied by
media companies that have undertaken or are seeking to undertake projects on the
Internet. This article presents some proposals to be considered by media companies
seeking to develop or upgrade their digital publications.
Still specific ? – The press agency AFP among the diversity of colleagues,
partners and amateurs, in the digital era
Nicey, Jeremie
lab. CIM, Univ. Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France
International news agencies are traditionnaly considered – with truth – as providers of
information to diverse media customers. With AP and Reuters, the Agence France-
Presse (AFP) is one of the three major agencies; and the oldest. For centuries, AFP
has adapted to media and society evolutions, as well as it participated in shaping
some of those changes – especially regarding to information/news flows. Yet, it has
had a specific role to play, being in the beginning of the news chain: collecting news
that other actors – more visible, newspapers and mainstream medias at a top place –
publish and broadcast.
In the Internet era, is this specificity continuing? What are the strategies of AFP
towards recent and major online actors, such as Google, Twitter, Facebook and
towards amateur practices (egg. the agency Citizenside)? Is AFP reluctant to web
transformations and towards‘competitors’ of a new kind, or is still adapting/shaping to
such changes? How does its choices meet with the interests of both its usual
customers and informed citizens at a larger extent?
This communication, based on researchs at Agence France-Presse (post-doc at
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, with the support of the French Agence Nationale de la
Recherche), will highlight some recent cases in the agency’s practices, in order to
measure its singularity and challenges in the digital world.
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