Where are the books? Libraries under fire as they shift from print to digital.
À lire dans le Washington Post.
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Dossier spécial de l’hebdo “The Economist: America’s Hispanics
The Economist One American in six is now Hispanic, up from a small minority two generations ago. By mid-century it will be more than one in four. David Rennie explains what that means for America From minor to major Dreaming in English A suitable box to tick Not our thing Cuba libre In the shadows…
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Revolution and its discontents: The messy case of Egypt’s journalists union
Columbia Journalism Review (…) The Egyptian Journalists Syndicate (EJS) is the official body tasked with organizing, protecting, and accrediting Egyptian reporters and editors (and sometimes others, like lucky ad men) at private and government-run newspapers. When you hear of Egyptian journalists being censored, fired, intimidated, detained, attacked, or killed, the syndicate is the go-to place…
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Last Gasp in Paris
Commentary Magazine Writing in Hypervocal in March, Havas Media’s Tom Goodwin opened with a jarring observation. “Uber, the world’s largest taxi company, owns no vehicles,” he wrote. “Facebook, the world’s most popular media owner, creates no content. Alibaba, the most valuable retailer, has no inventory. And Airbnb, the world’s largest accommodation provider, owns no real estate.”…
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De plus en plus de Canadiens mettent fin à leur abonnement télé traditionnel selon une nouvelle étude de la CBC.
Aly Thompson La Presse Canadienne Le rapport du réseau anglais de Radio-Canada, publié en mai dernier, précise que plus de la moitié des Canadiens qui ne possèdent pas d’abonnement à la télévision câblée ont «coupé le cordon», c’est-à-dire qu’ils avaient un abonnement et ont décidé d’y mettre fin. — BBC to lay off 1,000…
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The day my dog was cooked for dinner
By Juliana Liu, Hong Kong correspondent BBC News This week about 10,000 dogs and a number of cats were killed at an annual dog-meat festival in south-western China, to celebrate the longest day of the year. For the BBC’s Juliana Liu it was a reminder of one of the most traumatic days of her childhood,…
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« Face à l’islamisme, certains intellectuels « progressistes » sont dangereux »
Le Figaro Dans son essai La pensée égarée, Alexandra Laignel-Lavastine explore plus d’une décennie de capitulation des « élites » face à la montée de l’islamisme radical. ALEXANDRA LAIGNEL-LAVASTINE : C’est plutôt l’étonnement général qui me surprend. Un intellectuel musulman laïc et démocrate me lançait il y a quelques jours: «Les intellectuels progressistes européens se…
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Infographie: The Flight of Refugees Around the Globe
New York Times Nearly 60 million people are displaced around the world because of conflict and persecution, the largest number ever recorded by the United Nations. About 14 million of those fled in 2014, according to a report released this week.
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America’s elderly prisoner boom (Reportage 8.13)
Thanks to ultra-long sentences, America’s 2.3m prisoners are getting older. Under the ‘Gold coats’ programme in California, younger inmates look after elderly ones