The impact of information communication technologies on news. A case study of Algeria's media landscape

The dramatic political events of 2011 that swept many Arab countries and largely fostered the advent of new technologies of information and communication have led to news changes of media structures, policies and practices in other parts of Africa. Algeria, as a reference in this paper, which kept their citizens waiting for 50 years under state monopoly, has been affected by these changes. As a result, it has been compelled in the end to authorize private television channels operating in the new audiovisual media landscape. In January 2014, the national assembly adopted a new audiovisual bill that ended up a long-term public audiovisual media ownership. Since then, the local audiovisual landscape has been flourishing but without having an impact on the way news are conceived, gathered, dispatched and perceived by the public in relation to the new editorial policies and ethical norms. Media professionals are adopting new rules, new regulations and new practices in producing news and securing their impartiality. The impact of the new news approach on the public’s expectations and needs is perceived from the way the audience perceives, reacts and interacts. The new approach goals set goals to bridge news credibility gaps with the audience tired of lies and rumours, and also to maintain the news development and sustainability in Algeria