Weekly television show "Freeze images " - face to the changing media world

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Whether it is television channels, radio stations, newspapers or websites, traditional media is facing the crucial challenge to adapt or die. In France, for the past four years, a television show called Arrêt sur images has gone through tremendous changes in order to survive. Arrêt sur images (ASI) is a weekly television broadcast focusing on the life of the media world. It was first aired in 1995 and has been presented ever since by Daniel Schneidermann, a 1958-born French journalist, who used to work for French newspapers Le Monde and Libération. The goal of the program, broadcasted on the channel France 5, was to create a platform where journalists and experts would be able to criticize and comment on the media. The aim of this paper will be to study how, after having been cancelled on television, the show managed to survive by rising from the ashes in a new form.

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[...] For all three and especially the last one the idea remains to allow debates about the future of the media to take place. What's more, it was recently decided than Arrêt sur images would come back to television: Daniel Schneidermann created a TV channel dedicated to broadcasting all three podcasts[14]. Arrêt sur images TV is actually a premium channel, available for Internet users who access the Internet through the French ISP Free, for a monthly fee of Also, @SI did not left out the importance of “modern media”: a Twitter account[15] was created to relay the articles published on the main website. [...]

[...] Arrêt sur images was definitely removed from the 2007-2008 schedule. Schneidermann then decided not to give up on his show. Although France 5 had fired him and no other channel wanted to save it, he was convinced that he could continue to broadcast in a different form. With that goal in mind, Schneidermann launched in September 2007 a website for ASI[8] (renamed @SI for the occasion), and announced that the programme was to come back through online articles and video podcasts[9]. [...]

[...] In France, for the past four years, a television show called Arrêt sur images has gone through tremendous changes in order to survive. The aim of this paper will be to study how, after having been cancelled on television, the show managed to survive by rising from the ashes in a new form. Arrêt sur images (ASI) is a weekly television broadcast focusing on the life of the media world[1]. It was created in 1995 and has been presented ever since by Daniel Schneidermann, a French journalist born in 1958, who used to work for French newspapers Le Monde and Libération. [...]

[...] The aim of this decision was to grasp the rapid transformation of the media world; for Schneidermann, focusing only on television did not make much sense anymore. All media are now related to one another; thus, a website claiming to address issues regarding the “media world” had to deal with all supports. To make this project a reality, Schneidermann decided to create three video podcasts.[13] The first, named Arrêt sur images, is simply the recreation of the original programme. The second, called D@ns le texte and animated by Judith Bernard, deals with litterature. [...]

[...] As claimed by only resource of the website is made of subscriptions, in order to guarantee its total independence vis-à-vis all powers, institutions, companies, advertisers, or other media”[11]. This system used by @SI is much similar to that of other newspaper websites. It relies on a “freemium” offer: all visitors can access recent articles for free, but only users who paid an annual fee of are allowed to access the full content of the website (archived articles, video podcasts and reports, and social features)[12]. In order to carry out such a transformation, Schneidermann decided to broaden the topics dealt with on [...]