Toutes les questions ont été préparées par les élèves.
All the questions were prepared by the students.
Pauline Simonet est actuellement correspondante à Washington, D.C. pour BFM TV et la télévision belge.
Philip Crowther is the International Affiliate Reporter for the Associated Press Global Media Services. Bases in Washington, D.C., he is an accredited White House correspondent.
Nick Harper is e US Correspondent & TV & Radio journalist for Feature Story News.
Richard Latendresse est correspondant à Washington, D.C. et à la Maison Blanche pour la chaîne TVA Nouvelles.
Après l'élection présidentielle américaine et l'attaque du Capitol le 6 janvier dernier, nos invités sont venus discuter avec les élèves des défis que posent le reportage et l'analyse de l'actualité dans un contexte de tensions politiques et sociales, avec en trame de fond la diffusion des "fake news" et les attaque contre les médias.
After the last US presidential election and the attack on the Capitol, our guests came to have a conversation with the students about the challenges of reporting the news in times of political and social tension with, in the background, the spread of fake news and attacks against the media.
Merci à nos invités et aux élèves de 1ère spécialité.
Pauline Simonet
Philip Crowther
Nick Harper
Richard Latendresse
Claude Porsella, après ses études de journalisme à Paris, a été correspondant en Afrique avant de venir aux Etats-Unis où il vit depuis 1966. Il a passé une bonne partie de sa carrière au service français de la Voix de l’Amérique dont il fut le chef avant de prendre sa retraite en 2003. Au cours de cette période, il fut aussi un contributeur régulier des médias canadiens, européens et africains.
Il a travaillé depuis comme journaliste indépendant, notamment pour Radio France Internationale (2003-2017) et présentement Médi 1 qui diffuse au Maghreb et en Afrique sub-saharienne. Il a été président du Club Tocqueville, l’ancienne association de la presse francophone à Washington.
Observateur de longue date de la scène américaine, il a couvert tous les grands événements qui ont marqué l’actualité aux Etats-Unis depuis la mort de Martin Luther King et Robert Kennedy, le vol historique d’Apollo 11, le Watergate, jusqu’aux attentats du 11 septembre et 14 élections présidentielles de Richard Nixon à Joe Biden.
Merci à Claude Porsella et aux élèves de 1ère spécialité.
Centre pour l'éducation aux médias et à l'information : https://www.clemi.fr/
Demystifying Media Seminar Series (University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication).
AFP Fact Check : https://factcheck.afp.com/
Conspiracy Watch - L'observatoire du conspirationnisme : https://www.conspiracywatch.info/
Théories du complot : https://theoriesducomplot.be/#INTRO
Identifying conspiracy theories
To also celebrate Women's History Month:
“The Women Who Changed War Reporting”, The Atlantic (2021).
"I Don’t Want My Role Models Erased”, The NYT (2021).
Hélène Charlet, Fake news, cultiver les bons réflexes, 2019
Hélène Charlet, Halte à l'infodémie ! Coronavirus et Fake News, 2021
Jake Flack is a D.C. native and the Associate Director for Museum Education at Ford's Theatre in Washington, D.C.. One of the most visited sites in the nation's capital, Ford's Theatre reopened its doors in 1968, more than a hundred years after the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. But Ford's Theatre is not only the place where President Lincoln was shot (and subsequently died in the close-by Petersen House). The theatre is surrounded by D.C. history, close to Pennsylvania Avenue, the National Mall, and the U and H Streets corridors. In this presentation, Jake Flack shows how strategic D.C. was during the Civil War
Thank you to Jake Flack and the 1ère OIB students.
Ford's Theatre: https://www.fords.org/ and https://twitter.com/fordstheatre
Kevin Levin is an historian, educator, and public speaker. He is specialized in the history of the American Civil War and the history of Confederate monuments. Mr. Levin is the author of Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth, Remembering The Battle of the Crater: War as Murder, and Interpreting the Civil War at Museums and Historic Sites. His essays and contributions have appeared in many historical journals, magazines, and newspapers including The Atlantic, The New York Times, and The Washington Post.
Thank you to Kevin Levin and the 1ère OIB students.
Resources :
Civil War Memory, Kevin Levin's website: http://cwmemory.com/
See also his blog : http://cwmemory.com/blog/ and threads on Twitter @kevinlevin
and a collection of his articles and Op-Eds: http://cwmemory.com/cv/
Excerpts from Searching for Black Confederates
"The Making of a White Supremacist Myth. Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers", The New Republic (2019).
"Richmond’s Confederate Monuments Were Used to Sell a Segregated Neighborhood", The Atlantic (2020).
Update: "Robert E. Lee statue removed in Charlottesville", The Washington Post (July 2021).
On the "Lost Cause" and the re-writing of Civil War history:
Coleman Lowndes. "How Southern socialites rewrote Civil War history", Vox (2017)
Bryan Lyman. "Southern schools' history textbooks: A long history of deception, and what the future holds", Montgomery Adviser (2020)
"Whose Heritage? Public Symbols of the Confederacy", Southern Poverty Law Center
On the debate over monuments in France:
Beth Daley. "Les boulons de l’Histoire : statues, récits et usages", The Conversation (2020).
Marc Perelman. "France won’t ‘erase’ history by removing colonial-era statues, Macron says", France24 (2020).
Dans le cadre de l'étude de l'information et des médias en spécialité Histoire, Géographie, Géopolitique, Science Politique, les élèves de 1ère ont rencontré et interviewé Brigitte Dusseau, directrice de l'AFP pour l'Amérique du Nord.
Merci à Madame Dusseau et aux intervieweurs, Charles Mateos y Lago, Mateo Roig-Gicquel et Milo Soriano.
Ressources :
Site de l'AFP : https://www.afp.com/en/news-hub
AFP Fact Check : https://factcheck.afp.com/
Histoire de l’AFP : http://expositions.bnf.fr/afp/arret/1/index.htm
Chronologie : https://www.afp.com/fr/lagence/lafp-en-dates#0
Dans le cadre de l'étude des relations entre États et religions, Stéphanie Le Bars, journaliste au Monde spécialiste des religions, aujourd'hui basée à Washington, D.C., est venue parler aux élèves de 1ère spécialité de la question de la laïcité en France.
Merci à Madame Le Bars et à notre intervieweuse, Helena Vandenbroeke.
Ressources :
Quelques éléments d'histoire de la laïcité en France : https://www.francetvinfo.fr/societe/religion/laicite/video-l-histoire-de-la-laicite-en-france_810973.html
Laïcité française, laïcité américaine par Amandine Barb : https://www.vie-publique.fr/parole-dexpert/269406-la-laicite-en-france-et-aux-etats-unis-analyse-comparee
Pour introduire les élèves au programme de Terminale et à l'étude des conflits au Moyen Orient, Catherine Jentile de Canecaude, chef du bureau de TF1 et LCI à Washington, D.C., est venue partager avec les élèves de 1ère son expertise et son expérience.
Grand reporter, reporter de guerre, Catherine Jentile de Canecaude a couvert les moments clés de l'histoire récente de la région. Elle a notamment rencontré Yasser Arafat et interviewé Saddam Hussein quelques jours avant l'invasion du Koweït en 1990. Entre autre marques de reconnaissance, Catherine Jentile de Canecaude s'est vue décerner, avec Manuel Joachim, le prix Albert-Londres en 1998 pour le document « Chronique d’une tempête annoncée » tourné à Gaza.
Merci à Madame de Canecaude et à nos deux intervieweurs, Max Colombina et Milo Soriano.
Ressources :
Interview de Catherine Jentile de Canecaude sur France Inter (2011) : https://www.franceinter.fr/emissions/temoins-de-passage/temoins-de-passage-21-juillet-2011
Trois vidéos pour une introduction aux conflits au Proche et au Moyen Orient :
Dessous des Cartes - Moyen Orient : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tu1Yvxf4fcQ
Aperçu des conflits par AFP : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1Ck9vhXJXk
Israel-Palestine : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4m10_kkbte0
Maggie Paxson is a writer, anthropologist, and performer. She is the author of The Plateau and Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village, and her essays have appeared in the Washington Post Magazine, Wilson Quarterly, and Aeon. Fluent in Russian and French, she has worked in rural communities in northern Russia, the Caucasus, and upland France.
Thank you to Maggie Paxson and the interviewers Avril Jammes, Elias Paris, and Adrien Wheaton-Schopp, 1ère OIB.
Resources :
Short biographies of Maggie Paxson: https://www.ushmm.org/research/about-the-mandel-center/all-fellows-and-scholars/margaret-paxson-2010 and https://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/margaret-paxson
Podcast on NPR about The Plateau : https://www.npr.org/2019/08/31/756323288/book-the-plateau
Excerpts from the book : https://www.amazon.com/Plateau-Maggie-Paxson/dp/1594634750
Article about Chambon-sur-Lignon : http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180806-a-french-village-committed-to-deception
Brief summary of Solovyovo: The Story of Memory in a Russian Village : https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/solovyovo-the-story-memory-russian-village
Interview about Solovyovo : https://www.wilsoncenter.org/dialogue-program/solovyovo
Excerpts from the book : https://books.google.com/books?id=_LB5OdND0hUC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Photos by Lucian Perkins, photographer winner of a Pulitzer Prize : http://www.lucianperkins.com/village-anufrievo/
Paul Glenshaw, an instructor and lecturer for the Smithsonian Associates, is co-director, writer, and producer with Darroch Greer of The Lafayette Escadrille, a documentary he presented to the 1ère OIB students.
Thank you to Paul Glenshaw and our interviewers Thomas Latendresse, Elias Paris, and Adrien Wheaton-Schopp.
Resources:
Website of the Lafayette Escadrille Project: http://thelafayetteescadrille.org/
Short version of the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvIEDVIW4AU
About the escadrille: https://www.worldwar1centennial.org/index.php/about-the-lafayette-escadrille.html and https://encyclopedia.1914-1918-online.net/article/lafayette_escadrille
Article about Norman Prince in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/long-entombed-at-national-cathedral-a-forgotten-hero-of-wwi-is-recalled/2016/10/12/c8bd2fc4-8fd6-11e6-9c85-ac42097b8cc0_story.html
In relation, "We return fighting - World War I and the Shaping of Modern Black Identity" an exhibit shown at the National Museum of African American History and Culture: https://nmaahc.si.edu/explore/exhibitions/we-return-fighting
and a podcast with Krewasky Salter, guest curator of the exhibition: https://soundcloud.com/french-embassy-in-the-u-s/we-return-fighting-wwi
Scott Campbell, Senior Human Rights Officer with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, kindly agreed to an interview for three of our seniors' research project on democracy in Central Africa.
See Mr. Campbell's bio: https://www.constellationr.com/events/PCDF/speakers/scott-p-campbell
Thank you to Scott Campbell and our interviewers Kenan Gustafson, Alexander McQuibban, and Karim Pareja.
As part of her research project on the effects of transition on populations, Aïsha Philippe chose to work on the case of Chechnya. Sebastian Smith, reporter with the AFP, kindly agreed to share with her his expertise on the subject.
Before being a White House correspondent for the AFP in Washington, D.C., Mr. Smith was based in Moscow and reported on the war in Chechnya.
Thank you to Sebastian Smith and Aïsha Philippe.
Resources:
Excerpts from Mr. Smith's book Allah's Mountains: The Battle for Chechnya: https://books.google.com/books?id=Q7WKDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
Aïsha Philippe's research paper "Chechen Perseverance Amongst Turbulent, Outside Government": coming soon
Christophe de Gouvello, World Bank China Energy Team Coordinator, kindly agreed to answer the questions of Juliette Hart, Annabelle Piot, and Nolwen Prince for their research on the evolution of China's energy and environmental policy.
Thank you to Christophe de Gouvello, Juliette, Annabelle, and Nolwen.
Roy Percy is a federal magistrate judge on the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi and an adjunct professor at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He introduced the Terminale OIB students to the US justice system and justice issues in the South.
Thank you to Judge Percy.
Due to federal judicial guidelines, we cannot post the recording of this discussion.
Lisa Percy is an attorney who served in the Office of Congressional Liaison during the Jimmy Carter presidency. She later worked as a liaison under Mississippi Governors William F. Winter and Ray Mabus. Currently she serves on the boards of the MS Museum of Art, Delta Health Alliance, and the Community Foundation of Washington County which she founded.
Thank you to Lisa Percy.
Notes:
Jimmy Carter served as a Democratic Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975. He was the 39th President of the United States from January 1977 to January 1981.
William H. Winter served as a Democratic Governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. He was appointed as a member of President Clinton’s Advisory Board on Race in 1997-1998. The William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation in Jackson, MS is named in his honor. In March 2008, William Winter was given the Profile in Courage Award by the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum for his work advancing education and racial reconciliation.
Ray Mabus was a Democratic Governor of Mississippi from 1988 to 1992 and a US ambassador. He served as Secretary of the Navy under President Barack H. Obama from 2009 to 2017.
Resources:
Jimmy Carter Presidential Library: https://www.jimmycarterlibrary.gov/
UVA Miller Center page on President Carter: https://millercenter.org/president/carter
"William Winter and the Education of Mississippi", NPR podcast (2004): https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1718439
William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation: https://www.winterinstitute.org/
Interview with William Winter (South Writ Large, 2017): https://southwritlarge.com/articles/interview-with-william-f-winter/
Pour citer nos auteurs, "Nous lisons leurs articles tous les jours, leur parole nous ouvre sur le monde et nous informe sur tout ce qu’il s’y passe, pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Pourtant, nous ne savons rien d’eux. Qui sont les journalistes ? Ils ont le devoir d’être impartiaux ... et si on leur demandait leur avis, pour une fois ?"
Retrouvez certains de nos invités qui, à l'occasion de la semaine de la presse, ont partagé avec les élèves de 1ère spécialité Histoire, Géographie, Géopolitique, Science Politique leurs parcours de journalistes et reporters.
Merci à tous nos invités et aux professeures documentalistes!
To quote our authors, "We read their articles every day, their words open us to the world and informs us about everything that is happening in it, for better or for worse. Yet we know nothing about them. Who are the reporters? They have a duty to be impartial... how about asking them their opinion for once?
Discover more about some of our guests who, on the occasion of the "semaine de la presse", shared their experiences as journalists and reporters with the 1ère spécialité Histoire, Géographie, Géopolitique, Science Politique students.
Thank you to all our guests and to the Rochambeau librarians!