En Quête d'Info: the festival dedicated to deciphering the media in Parisian libraries

A dive into the media and its decoding, to become a news pro! That's what the En Quête d'Info festival, an event dedicated to deciphering the media, is offering you in Paris libraries from March 29 to April 12, 2025. This initiative aims to question the way in which information is produced, distributed and perceived, in a context marked by the multiplication of channels and the acceleration of content circulation.

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Open to all and with free access, the festival offers debates, conferences, workshops and shows to analyze the mechanisms of information and raise public awareness of the issues of fact-checking, disinformation and press freedom. The program is structured around various themes explored by journalists, academics and media professionals. A number of events are planned in various libraries across the capital. Here's an overview:

• Saturday March 29 - 3pm(Médiathèque Marguerite Yourcenar, 15th arrondissement) : Masterclass & round table - Journalism and the test of truth
• Saturday, March 29 - 3pm (Maison 13 Solidaire, 13th arrondissement): Rencontre - Who owns the media in France?
• Saturday, March 29 - 3pm(Bibliothèque Jacqueline de Romilly, 18th): Conference - Conspiracies in History
• Saturday, March 29 - 3pm(BiLiPo, 5th): Lecture and screening - Complotism and disinformation at the heart of the X-Files series
• Thursday, April 3 - 7pm(Bibliothèque Drouot, 9e): Rencontre - What is a cultural influencer?
• Thursday, April 3 - 7pm(Bibliothèque Aimé Césaire, 14th arrondissement): Conference - Understanding AI and how it works
• Friday April 4 - 7pm(Bibliothèque Françoise Sagan, 10e): Show - Femme non-réducable
• Saturday, April 5 - 4pm(Bibliothèque Buffon, 5e): Round table - Journaliste : comment garder la juste distance ?
• Tuesday, April 8 - 7pm(Bibliothèque Benoîte Groult, 14th): Round table - Information wars
• Thursday, April 10 - 7pm(Bibliothèque James Baldwin, 19th): Rencontre - Faut-il quitter les réseaux sociaux?
• Saturday, April 12 - 3pm (Bibliothèque Françoise Sagan, 10th arrondissement): Rencontre - Menace sur l'info : l'intelligence artificielle, et après ?

Full program here. En Quête d'Info is part of the media and information education initiative launched by Parisian libraries. Through partnerships with academic and cultural institutions, En Quête d'Info proposes a reflection on journalism and its contemporary challenges.

Carine Rolland, deputy mayor of Paris in charge of culture, stresses that " mastery of media codes and language, and knowledge of how information is produced, are fundamental to the exercise of full citizenship ". The aim of the event is to provide participants with the keys to a better understanding of the media landscape and a critical look at the information they receive.

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