How is information produced?
It is this question, both simple and complex, that the journalists of Le Parisien-Aujourd'hui in France will endeavor to answer throughout School Press and Media Week, which begins Monday.
A few days before the 35th edition kicks off, we are putting four new making-of videos online designed for middle and high school students.
In total, ten sequences explaining, using very concrete examples, how we deal with current events are now available below.
Among the new episodes, Nicolas Charbonneau, editorial director, looks back on the choices that are made every day to compose the front page, a true showcase of daily life.
You can also discover the work of the infographics department, whose journalists produce maps, curves, drawings and other graphic documents to understand the news at a glance.
Focus also on video, which plays an increasingly important role on the newspaper's website and its mobile application.
Our reporter Hadrien Gonzales goes behind the scenes of his investigation into the origin of the meat in kebabs.
A sequence that has been viewed more than 10 million times on Facebook.
Finally, the last video details the system planned for the Olympic Games this summer in Paris.
Alongside the broadcast of these making-ofs and the free distribution of 10,000 copies of the newspaper in schools, around ten reporters will speak in classes to explain their profession.
Three hundred students and their teachers will also be welcomed at Le Parisien headquarters during Press Week.
They will be able to familiarize themselves with the functioning of an editorial team made up of 400 journalists.
Finally, the highlight of this 35th edition whose theme is “news on all fronts”, our special correspondents on the conflict zones in Ukraine and the Middle East will participate, alongside the editorial director, in an exchange on their working conditions and the difficulties of war reporting.
Scheduled for Tuesday March 19, this conference, to which around a hundred high school students from the Ile-de-France region have been invited, will be filmed and broadcast live to many classes in the region.
A mobilization of all Le Parisien teams dictated by a conviction: it is essential to disseminate safe and verified information, but also the keys to understanding it.
How do we choose the subjects of a story?
Who decides which topics appear on the front page?
How are the titles and photos chosen?
Through a series of recent examples - from the appointment of Gabriel Attal to Matignon to the departure of Kylian Mbappé from PSG - Nicolas Charbonneau, the editorial director, details the process of designing the first page of the newspaper, a real showcase where figures the information that the editorial team considers to be among the most important.
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Cyclone Belal: a storm, four infographics
A few days after the passage of tropical cyclone Belal, the island of Reunion breathes a sigh of relief.
The damage is certainly significant - more than a hundred million euros - and four deaths are to be deplored, but the much-feared cataclysm was avoided: the depression system changed course at the last moment.
To explain this extreme meteorological episode, which occurred in January, journalists from Le Parisien produced four infographics, both to show the progression of the cyclone on a map, the scale of the phenomenon and also to explain the scale of the alerts and the consequences of the hurricanes.
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What plan has the Parisian planned for the Paris Olympic Games?
Exceptional events require exceptional means.
For the Olympic Games this summer in Paris, more than 150 journalists from Le Parisien are mobilized to cover the competitions and the sidelines of this global event.
Thirty-five reporters are already accredited, that is to say authorized to access the stadiums, making it the second largest press contingent after the Team.
For several months now, we have been reporting on the progress of preparations.
Four pages are published each week and a dedicated tab has been created on the newspaper's website to bring together all the articles and videos relating to the Games.
At the start of these 33rd Olympics, the editorial team will completely change its organization and devote the majority of its publications to this great sporting celebration.
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The list of French people qualified for each sport
Frozen kebab: the behind-the-scenes of a fascinating investigation
More than 10 million views on Facebook alone.
It is an understatement to say that the video by our reporter Hadrien Gonzales on the origin of the meat served in kebabs interested Internet users.
Every week, as part of the Food Checking series, our journalist investigates consumer food products.
“Why is there more pork than duck in the duck mousse?”
» ;
“Are pan-fried gnocchi really gnocchi?
» ;
“Why do so many people hate Mon Chéri?
» ;
“Should you buy couscous at the supermarket?
» or “What is the real color of mint syrup?”
» Fun titles, a light tone, for very serious investigations.
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How to recognize a frozen kebab
How the Parisian covered the World Cup final
What a game !
Rarely has a Football World Cup final been so full of twists and turns.
In 2022, the Blues did not repeat their performance from 2018, but they offered a breathtaking show.
Reporters, photographers, special correspondents... Benoît Lallement, deputy editor-in-chief of the sports department, discusses the system put in place to report on this crazy meeting.
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France beaten in the final: legendary scenario, cruel outcome
After the match, the sadness of the Blues
Mbappé's miracles were not enough
How was the image of the firefighter in the middle of the flames taken this summer in Gironde
The forest fire season was on an unprecedented scale in 2022. In addition to the usual devastation they cause throughout the Mediterranean, the flames also affected the Jura, the Vosges and even Brittany.
Olivier Corsan, photojournalist at Le Parisien, visited several times this summer in Gironde and the Landes, the hardest hit region.
He brought back very strong images of firefighters in action.
One of them was rewarded by the MaxPPP agency.
He tells us in what conditions it was taken.
TO HAVE
Photos of a night in the heart of the blaze
Why a little sentence from Omar Sy created controversy
It's an interview like he often does.
A “full and fascinating” exchange with the actor Omar Sy, around his feature film “Tirailleurs”, a film on the 1914-1918 war released in January 2023. Yves Jaeglé, reporter in the culture department, did not expect that a sentence taken out of context provokes controversy and fuels endless and unfounded debates.
Unusually, our journalist had to make a clarification.
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The interview that sparked controversy
Yves Jaeglé's response
How we got an exclusive interview with Ukraine's first lady
Christel Brigaudeau, a senior reporter, has produced numerous reports in Ukraine since the start of the war in February 2022. One of the very first, in kyiv, in a children's hospital under bombs, was particularly noted.
A powerful and poignant story which allowed him, in turn, to secure an exclusive interview with the wife of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Olena Zelenska, and follow the arrival in France, for treatment, of around twenty children .
Among them, Veronika, 6 years old, suffering from leukemia…
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Olena Zelenska's interview
The story of the arrival in France of around twenty sick children
How to prepare for a report abroad
Le Parisien has nearly 400 journalists who produce dozens of reports every day.
If local information is part of the DNA of the title, reporters also go abroad to cover international news.
These trips thousands of kilometers from our Parisian offices require a lot of preparation, as our environmental specialist Émilie Torgemen explains with an example: an article she produced in Iceland on a factory that captures the CO2 and turns it into stone.
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Why were the subways timed?
Topics are decided at editorial conferences or during department meetings.
Sometimes they emerge around informal discussions.
This is the case for this giant testing, which mobilized around ten journalists.
Objective: to precisely measure the deterioration in the quality of service in the Paris metro, the densest network in the world which is beset by a series of setbacks.
Aubin Laratte, web reporter, coordinated the collection and processing of data.
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Our test of metro waiting times
Report from Parisians fleeing the hassle of the metro