It is not a journalistic crisis, it is a funding crisis: an interview with Jean Charron

Abstract

In this interview, the researcher Jean Charron, from Laval University, Canada, argues that the contemporary journalistic paradigm is still the “journalism of communication”, that emerged around the 1970s and 1980s. The model created by him and Jean de Bonville, in 2004, is described as a period of multiple supports, hyper-competitiveness, overabundance of information and emphasis on the phatic function of the discourse. To build this concept, the authors used Weber’s ideal type method to reconstruct the history of journalism, since the 17^th century. Finally, the author argues that, nowadays, there is not a journalistic crisis, but there is funding crisis.