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- Title
enquêter sur les violences sexuelles: Luttes féministes et activation de solidarités professionnelles.
- Authors
BUISSON, CHARLOTTE
- Abstract
Until 2016, journalistic investigations on sexual violence committed by a political figure had never been published in France. With the publication of the“Baupin affair” on May 9, 2016, Mediapart and France Inter inaugurated a new area of investigation. A total of sixteen women testified in the press about sexual harassment and assaults committed by Denis Baupin, then vice-president of the National Assembly and Green Party MP for Paris's 10th constituency. While sexual violence perpetrated by political figures has long been ignored, or even invisibilized by journalists, how did it become a legitimate subject of investigation in political journalism? What “trials” (de Blic and Lemieux, 2005) have women political journalists overcome to incorporate such violence into the concernsof political journalism, to the extent that a press investigation into Denis Baupin could emerge? This article addresses these questions based on a series of semi-structured interviews conducted between 2020 and 2023 with the journalists behind the investigation, as well as those who covered the “Baupin affair”. These interviews enable us to identify the adjustments made, in terms of journalistic culture, between the “DSK affair”and the “Baupin affair”. We begin by outlining the media framings long favoredby political journalists with regard to “sexual issues” (Fassin, 2009), before looking at how the experience of violence within a professional space can lead to the constitution of a community. This group, made up of feminist political journalists, circulated a set of discourses that will encourage the renewal of journalistic practices on gender violence and open up new investigative horizons, enabling the emergence of the “Baupin affair” and serving the credibility of media accounts of violence.
- Subjects
GENDER-based violence; WOMEN journalists; POLITICAL news coverage; SEXUAL assault; POLITICAL violence; WHISTLEBLOWING
- Publication
Sur le Journalisme, About Journalism, Sobre Jornalismo, 2024, Vol 13, Issue 1, p46
- ISSN
2295-0710
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.25200/SLJ.v13.n1.2024.610