Abstract
Viewed from the newsrooms of Paris- and London-based international news agencies, and via the Internet and Internet sites of these and similar organisations, conceptions of French and British traditions of “what makes news” seem, on the one hand, to stress “fact-centric” or “hard” or “spot” journalism and, on the other, to highlight the “added value” when established newspersons provide interpretative pieces or comment columns. Technical discussions of the formatting of news for hypertext markup languages and the taxonomies of the classification of news go hand-in-hand with debates about customised “daily me” type news schedules. Some journalists move from being foreign or war correspondents covering “hotspots” and “flash-points” to a more reflexive self-questioning… and “mainstream-media”-questioning… stance. “Whither the news?” ask some; “so what?” reply others.
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