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cific station for which they work. The field work was done during the 2013–2014 radio season. The analysis sample includes the four most-listened (EGM,
2015) Spanish generalist channels (public as well as private), that is, Cadena SER, COPE, Onda Cero and Radio Nacional de España. The outcome shows how
the management of the new tasks the appearance of social media has set has not derived into the creation of an utterly defined profile of a Community
Manager in the radio context. In any case, the radio professionals understand that the person responsible for this job has to be competent in journalism
tasks, or, at least, be in possession of basic knowledge in regard to communication. Finally, the outcome shows a lack of specific formation which has make
them work intuitively or using their previous experience as users of this platforms.
PP 696
Radio News Journalists: An Endangered Species
J. Paquette
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, P.C. Bélanger
1
1
University of Ottawa, Communication, Ottawa, Canada
Made-for-radio journalism’s faith is getting clearer everyday. Unquestionably, the public can still get information by listening to radio, but if the case study
of Canada’s public broadcaster, CBC/Radio-Canada, is any indication, finding a media group that requires bona fide radio reporters might prove to be as
challenging as finding the proverbial needle in the now digital haystack. Few reporters work primarily for radio anymore. In the same spirit as the stunning
reports surrounding the BBC would abolish its traditional radio and TV divisions as we have come to define them, Canada’s public broadcaster has been
re-engineering the production and distribution of its content so that its malleability is optimized for the fledgling omnichannel ecosystem. For today’s
journalists, the significance of this change brings about a wholly different stance vis-à-vis news gathering and production. It gives rise to one of the most
forceful dogmas of the digital era: Produce once, distribute many. In this workflow philosophy, radio news becomes intertwined with television and digital
news content. In its production of news material, radio is increasingly meshed with its media siblings’audio feeds. CBC/Radio-Canada’s strategic plan clearly
signals its objective to make digital the broadcaster’s penultimate media. The plan labelled “A space for us all” is predicated upon the profound evolution
traditional media have endured in the last decade, a well-known fact by now. In the wake of the significant transformation in the ways people access their
news, today’s broadcasters are desperately trying to colonize the digital ecosystem while maintaining their relevance. For CBC/Radio-Canada, as for most
public broadcasters around the world, this net-amorphosis has proven to be doubly challenging as they have to do it right, fast, upgrade often, on a variety
of distribution platforms and with a much reduced budget. Faced with a severely amputated financial outlook that forces it to operate with a per capita
funding amongst the lowest in the international public broadcasters guild, CBC/Radio-Canada has elected to make the multimedia integration of its news
content one of the prime facets of its re-invention. This presentation focuses primarily on Canada’s public broadcaster’s French radio network, Ici Radio-Can‑
ada and its foray into the digicasting universe. It is based upon interviews with the heads of the three largest radio stations within the organization and is
complemented by data obtained through focus groups with news reporters’perspective on the status and evolution of their practice.
PP 697
Radio Journalism of Desk: Continuities of the Practices and New Relationships in Time
P.P. Ricaud
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, N. SMATI
2
1
Université François Rabelais, IUT Tours - PRIM, TOURS, France
2
Université Lille 3, GRECOM-LERASS, LILLE, France
Our main object of study concerns the evolution of the practices of the radio journalists, within the framework of a migration of the media on Web and
integration of new socio-technical devices of communication (blogs, forums, social networks). This communication is interested in the question of the way
radios how to adapt themselves to newmodes of processing and broadcasting of the information, at the risk of not taking the time required in the check, in
the stepping, in the live testimony, in the quotation, in the deepening…Obviously these phenomena are amplified by factors which exercise a particularly
strong pressure on the media, and that Patrick Charaudeau ( 2003 ) summarizes like that: " the ascendancy of the current events, the political exercise
of power, the existence of a fierce competition ". Our contribution, essentially, talks about a research led with reporters of Radio France International. Their
speeches bring to the foreground convergences and dissonances. For the journalists, the report in time is more and more impacted by new forms of pro‑
fessional practices - because of a digitalization of the jobs today, and more particularly in a dominant or exclusive use of on-line devices of information
and communication (Web sites, social networks, podcasts). Through the speech of the journalists we notice that the management of the working time,
the definition and the hierarchical organization of the priorities, the distinction between private and professional spheres are more and more problematics.
The time dedicated to the communication with their public (followers, likers or fans on Facebook, commentators, contributing listeners) and their profes‑
sional relations (correspondents, contributing experts, or auxiliaries of information), explaining partially these phenomena of confusion even of distortion
of time, as we shall try to show it. These findings expressed through the speeches of the journalists, are strong all the more for those whose practices get
closer most to the journalism of desk. These new practices, as show of it the questioned professionals, are also characterized by a multiplication of the tasks,
impacting "the time to dedicate to the information gathering and the search for information". With the digitalization of the radio, the journalist appears
and sometimes lives as a "Swiss army knife", multitasking, multifunction, at the risk of not having time to bring to a successful conclusion each of them or by
choosing to rank these according to the way he defines and lives his professional identity (“I remain a radio journalist before any", "I go at first for the anten‑
na"). We put the hypothesis of an impact of this journalism of desk on the relation in time and in the emergence of new temporalities, distinguishing itself
from those who characterized previously the media processes of production and broadcasting. Other underlying hypothesis, developed here, were the one
of the impact that can have the evolution of the place and the role (sometimes played) public of the media on this famous temporality.