News | Sunday, 22 February 2009

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Le Monde website founder to give talk on the net’s effect on the press

A top French journalist and author who was responsible for launching influential newspaper Le Monde’s online edition will be coming to Malta to give a talk on the internet’s effect on journalism.
Brought to Malta by the Today Public Policy Institute and the French Embassy, Jean-François Fogel will be giving a talk on “The New Internet: Press vs Audience” on Tuesday at the Malta Chamber of Commerce at 6pm.
Fogel Jean Francois Fogel is a journalist, writer and consultant who has been involved since 2000 in the development of Le Monde’s web-site, the leading news web-site in French.
He is a member of the team defining the targets and editorial ambition of Le Monde’s digital activity. As such, he is involved in LePost.fr, another news web-site based on User Generated Content which was launched successfully just over a year ago.
He holds a degree in economics from the University of Paris Pantheon, is a graduate in political science from Sciences Po and holds a degree from the Centre de Formation des Journalistes.
Fogel began his career at Agence France-Presse and has worked for various publications, including Libération and Le Point. From 1994 to 2002, he was the adviser of Le Monde CEO and in charge of editorial development of the newspaper. Fogel is the co-author of Une Presse Sans Gutenberg (Grasset, 2005) with Bruno Patino, and he wrote several books about Latin America and literature. He is a member of the executive committee of the Foundation for a New Journalism in Latin America founded by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
In his talk Fogel will take as his theme how the internet has changed in the last three years at an accelerating rate greater than in the whole of its earlier history. He will describe the upsurge of an active audience, the facility of mobile access build-up in new media thus leaving a shrinking space for the press. The successful campaign of Barack Obama for the Presidency of the United States is a vivid display of the dynamics at play in the new world of communications where media are competing and inter-acting with their own audience.

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