Didier Desormeaux is a chief editor and head of the News and Multi-Media Editions Department at the France Télévisions University. He has a Ph.D in Information and Communication Sciences. He designs and leads the advanced courses for executives and journalists at France-Télévisions. He handles international development assignments for TV channels in Asia, Africa and the Middle East for Canal France International and in Eastern Europe for Circom (Professional Association of Regional Public Service Television in Europe). He is the Chairman of FORTEF (an association of training managers for French-language radios and TV channels). In this capacity he is experimenting new methods for news reports (using digital and 3D cameras).
Brigitte Besse is Director of Studies at the Bordeaux Aquitaine Institute of Journalism (IJBA), in charge of television. With a Ph.D in linguistics and semiology, she specialises in pitching and text-picture balance. She leads critical viewing sessions and writing workshops for TF1, France Télévisions, Radio-France, RTBF (the French-language Belgian broadcasting corporation), RTS (the Swiss broadcasting corporation) and INA (the French audiovisual institute). She conducts training assignments on TV reports for CFI (in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Ghana).
At Sémionautes Associés, a media analyst agency she founded in 2002 with Eric Macé, she conducts socio-semiological research, especially for the CSA (the French audiovisual regulatory body) and the Council of Europe’s MARS (Media Against Racism in Sport) programme.
Brigitte Besse and Didier Désormeaux co-authored Construire le reportage télévisé, published in 1997. The English translation, Television News Reporting, sponsored by the European Parliament was published in 2003, subsequently translated into Russian in 2004 with the support of the European Union and distributed by Internews. The fourth French edition, Construire le reportage télévisé-multisupport, was published in 2011 by Victoires Editions.
With Hervé Brusini, Brigitte Besse and Didier Désormeaux co-authored the Abécédaire de France 3 (ABC of France 3) published in 2008.