par Fierens, Marie
Référence "Journalisms" and Social Worlds (12-13 February 2018: Brussels)
Publication Non publié, 2018-02-12
Communication à un colloque
Résumé : The research questions the relationships between humanitarian actors based in Goma and the local journalists. Goma, the capital of North Kivu province (Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo), has been the scene of permanent crises for decades. Therefore, hundreds of international humanitarian organizations are today working in the city. The media and humanitarian actors are ingaged in different kind of collaborations. By questioning the interactions between journalists and humanitarians based in Goma, the context in which they interact, the strategies they are pursuing, the concrete forms of their cooperation, as well as the“micro-worlds” that this cooperation make appearing, the research intends to highlight the ongoing negociation that underlies partly the professionnal practices of the Congolese journalists.