New relationship to work, integration of climatic issues … For their first edition, the Estates General of Training and Employment of Youth Journalists have highlighted the expectations of graduates in this sector.
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Chance of the calendar? The first general states of training and employment for young journalists, which were held on October 4, 2022 in Paris, coincided with the “News Commitment Day” – an annual meeting aimed at promoting the confidence of the population towards journalists. “If we do not take the measure of the loss of public confidence towards the media, democracy is in fatal danger,” said Pascal Guénée, president of the conference of journalism schools ( CEJ), an organization that brings together the fourteen recognized schools and piloting this event. One way to remember that if it is the first time that the profession has mobilized in this way for young people, it is also because its future is in question.
Disinformation, evolution of the work relationship, new modes of information consumption, impact of new technologies, precariousness associated with work in “freelance” … The profession of journalist is affected by the deep changes that cross society , as shown by the work carried out within the framework of these Estates General, financed by the PLAN France relaunch and the Ministry of Culture. A device was implemented in 2022, with actions in schools and with employers.
An investigation was carried out with neodiplômés (promotions from 2019 to 2022) to hear their aspirations. We learn that journalism remains a vocation profession: two thirds of the 1,600 young respondents of the survey deployed by the multi -skills cabinet dreamed of being journalists for years, even since childhood. But most refuse to sacrifice everything for their passion and demand a better balance between professional and personal life. Thus, only 37 % declare that working on offbeat schedule does not pose any difficulties.
The CEJ has identified twelve themes to change the conditions for entering the profession. Management is one of them, with the desire to go beyond the “shock of generations”. Everyone notes misunderstandings between on the one hand, annoyed employers that new recruits do not wish to get involved “thoroughly” for their passion job, and on the other, young people who wish to preserve their privacy, to carry out projects Personal … or simply respect their working hours, while wages in journalism remain much lower than those of other sectors recruiting graduates Bac + 5.
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