An initiative by Arte, with Hikari Press
In September 2016, the French government announced that the Calais Jungle would be dismantled. The Calais camp is like a city. With its own schools, its places of worship, its doctors, its districts, its communities, its stores, its restaurants. In many provinces, it would be the same size as a small town. It's got all that makes a community thrive, except
for one thing: media. There are no newspapers in the Jungle. No information. Rumors beget fear and uncertainty. That's why we've decided to set up emergency and proximity media. Media that can report on the daily life of the camp, on the progress of its dismantlement, meant for the people who live there and the others. In order to do so, we've built a newsroom in Calais. Journalists who report on and collect testimonies from people harbored in the camp: as much as possible, the main purpose is to build a participatory project. This newsroom will rely on four different media: a newspaper, social networks, a website, and TV broadcasts. In a way, it's a local media, targeted at people living and/or working in the camp. There will be news reports, but also the weather, practical information, featured portraits... This content, completed with videos, tweets, Facebook posts, will be published on a dedicated page and YouTube channel: a lot of migrant people get their news and communicate through smartphones and social media. For the others, the "general public", a website will be hosted on www.info.arte.tv. There, a major part of the information published on the migrant network will be available, but with some added context, and an easier desktop browsing. Finally, Arte TV daily news broadcast, as well as Arte Reportage and Arte Journal Junior, will recount the progress of the dismantlement: once a week on the news, through portraits of children for the younger audience, or in a more extensive way on Arte Reportage. All the content will be published in several languages: French, Arabic, English, German.
