The WAN-IFRA discourse: advice, application, and disqualification of organisational models in media

TitreThe WAN-IFRA discourse: advice, application, and disqualification of organisational models in media
Type de publicationArticle
Année de publication2014
LangueAnglais
Titre de la revueBrazilian Journalism Research
Volume10
Numéro1
Auteur(s)Langonné, J. et Prodhomme M.
ISSN 1981-9854
Mots-clésConvergence, Economic model, Information company, Organisational model
Résumé

Among the multiple exhortations made on the liberating - even saviour-type - role of the digital era over the past ten years in the field of journalism, one constant has remained: criticism of managerial models and dialectic of economic ones in the media which have defined the spheres of action, resulting in these discourses without ever sealing their fate. A fate that for several years now has been marked by a process in which journalists are being cast aside in favour of a managerial standpoint that broadly integrates 'convergence' as a tool of governance. This paper aims to question (as one of many mediations instituting convergence as a structuring model) WAN-IFRA's discursive and ideological materiality. This international organisation of newspapers and news publishers has set its sights on convincing the print media of the necessity to switching to multiformat; to convergence. This work investigates the stability and/or instability of the WAN-IFRA discourse, as well as its ability to absorb other discourses. Lastly, through a cloud of prescriptive discourse it will indicate those discourses enforced by some managers in the media business.

DOI10.25200/BJR.v10n1.2014.624