Who's behind the news?
Who's behind the news?
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Newsjunkie.net is a resource guide for journalists. We show who's behind the news, and provide tools to help navigate the modern business of information.
Use of Data
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InaTHÈQUE is the research access service of the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA), France's national audiovisual institute. INA was founded in 1975 following the dissolution of the Office de radiodiffusion-télévision française (ORTF) and was entrusted with the legal deposit for all French radio and television content in 1992. InaTHÈQUE was created as a specialist department of INA to manage researcher access to this legal deposit collection. Its primary consultation centre was established at the Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF) in Paris in 1998, with additional reading rooms subsequently opened across France. In 2012, the mandate was extended to include the legal deposit of French web media related to broadcasting.
InaTHÈQUE provides accredited researchers with access to the world's most extensive audiovisual legal deposit collection. The service encompasses recordings from 179 television channels and radio stations captured continuously since 1995, available just one day after broadcast. The total collection exceeds 28 million hours of television and radio content. Since 2009, the web legal deposit has added more than 14,000 media websites and 12,600 social network accounts related to French broadcasting. INA also holds private and public collections acquired through commercial and heritage mandates, including materials from ICAIC, AFP, the IOC, and UNESCO.
InaTHÈQUE is uniquely significant for media and journalism researchers. It holds complete recordings of French public and private television and radio output, including news broadcasts, documentary programming, political debates, cultural programmes, and advertising. News media researchers can access recordings of major French news channels and radio stations, making InaTHÈQUE one of the most comprehensive television and radio archives in the world for the study of French media history and journalism practice.
Access to InaTHÈQUE collections is restricted to accredited researchers who must obtain joint accreditation from both INA and the BnF by submitting proof of identity and a pre-accreditation form describing their research project. A BnF Research Pass (priced between €5 and €50 depending on validity) is also required. Accredited researchers use dedicated Audiovisual Listening Stations (SLAV) at the BnF's François-Mitterrand site and at a network of around 50 InaTHÈQUE consultation centres across France. Some catalogue information is available online at inatheque.fr.