Maria Pia Rossignaud, Vice President Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Director Media Duemila Derrick de Kerckhove, Scientific Director Osservatorio TuttiMedia and Media Duemila Donner un sens plus pur aux mots de la tribu1 Stéphane Mallarmé, Le tombeau d’Egard Poe In his translation of the work of Edgar Allen Poe, the French poet Stéphane Mallarmé attributes the same purpose to Poe’s work as we do to our work in promoting a new ethical and inclusive future for news media. In this current period of “Sturm und Drang”, of turmoil, stress and harrowing emotionality that we are all experiencing, there is an urgent need to reignite meaning and value in language. There was a time when social cohesion depended entirely on news media. At that time, despite different newspapers supporting different agendas, everyone agreed to disagree under the same umbrella of news. It was easy to distinguish between pure journalism and other more sensationalist popular papers, sometimes referred to as the ‘yellow’ press. Then social cohesion moved from the press to TV, with the creation of what Richard Nixon called the ‘silent majority’. Dominated by the power of advertising, that is by ‘good news’, TV reflected a time of prosperity and relative cohesion, with … Continue reading NewsMedia4Good: it’s all about Information Ethics and Algorithms