Résumé:
The study is titled "the practice of mediation in the online website news: a comparative
study". Our attention is focused essentially on dealing with the informal side of the
practical role of mediator who is charge of addressing readers' complaint, and solving
disputes between them and the journalists rise by the editors -in- chief of the Algerian print
media organizations.
Our research is based upon an approach that takes into consideration the importance of
thinking about dualism of gatekeeper / mediator, pre-censorship /post-censorship, Ethics /
editorial policy, external regulation / self-regulation in the analysis of mediation of the
following media organizations: Echorouk , ElKhaber, ElWatan, Liberte by comparing the
data base provided by journalists and responsible of newsrooms-mediators- all of them
represent the field of our study.
Furthermore, the emphasis of the research is turned toward the characteristics of news
websites of print organizations, mentioned above, in the area of interaction between the
mediator, the reader and the journalist, as well as uses associated with the means of Web
2.0, including notably social network websites, in addition to the manifestations of
mediation through these interactive spaces.
As a conclusion, this study has found out the existence of common platform or consensus
on the level of the mediation's practice between print media organization in a way that
allows dealing with complaints from the legal and judicial angle.
We have also observed there has been an insufficient impact of the mediation's practice on
reviewing or adjusting the editorial policy, in addition to the lack of interaction between
the editors -in-chief, the readers and the journalists as well.
However, we would say that this is an agreement between the responsible of the news
rooms and journalists about the proposal to create the post of an "internal mediator" within
the whole Algerian media organizations as a model that is regarded as the most
appropriate for the Algerian context.
As a matter of fact, we have noticed some differences which are linked, for instance, to the
influence of reader's feedback on the agenda of some print media organizations, and
various assessments of the journalists on the readers' responses in the process of
implementing the ethical practice of journalism ... other findings will be explained in the
study.
