Co-construction of information with the public

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Solution journalism is giving a completely salutary twist to this anxiety-provoking news. The newspaper Paris Normandie thus provides useful local information . contacts of those who make masks, places that provide showers for truck drivers. For its part, Nice Matin is launching the Coronaide application during the lockdown. The principle. offering help to vulnerable people or those on the front line, such as shopping or walking the dog. In total. 30,000 downloads of the application and a goldmine of subjects for the editorial journalists.

Journalists who cannot necessarily go to list of us mobile number database overcrowded hospitals are making online appeals for witnesses. They are then overwhelmed with testimonies. This influx of information allows them to bring to light subjects that they had not thought of. We made an online appeal for witnesses from anesthesiologists and intensive care doctors and we received tens of thousands of testimonies.

" We realized that there was a real need for caregivers to speak out ," explains Tristan Vey of Le Figaro. The voices of caregivers are breaking into editorial conferences in order to co-construct information.



The outcome of these meetings?

The pandemic proved to be an incubator of pre-existing trends in the profession. The French people's disinterest in the media gave way to a visceral demand for information. But the answers were not necessarily there. For the first time, journalists were no longer just witnesses but victims and just as unprepared as the public for this pandemic. An extraordinary context that helped bring them closer together.