Abstract
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.
