%0 Journal Article
%T Caf¨¦babel and ¡®G¨¦n¨¦ration Bataclan¡¯: Cosmopolitan identities and/as constructive European news
%A Henrik B£¿dker
%J Journalism
%@ 1741-3001
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1464884918770524
%X The attack on the Bataclan Theatre in Paris in November 2015 arguably targeted a transnational community of youths able to move and convene freely; as such, it was an attack on the liberal and cosmopolitan core of the European project. Caf¨¦babel (cafebabel.com), a multilingual current affairs online magazine co-funded by the European Union, is intricately linked to this project. This article consequently investigates how Caf¨¦babel, in the aftermath of the attack, appropriated the notion of ¡®G¨¦n¨¦ration Bataclan¡¯ from a front page of Lib¨¦ration and how this may be seen as a constructive intervention in the relations between terrorism and journalism in Europe. Caf£¿babel¡¯s coverage was, it will be argued, linked to efforts to reflect and/or construct a generational and transnational ¡®cosmopolitan identity¡¯ within journalistic practices that largely can be called participatory. Following this, the article consequently argues for seeing Caf¨¦babel¡¯s coverage as instances of constructive news as participation in the European project, which is related to how the outlet perceives the news by national legacy media as un-constructive (conflict, scepticism, nationalism, sensationalism, etc.). In analysing a sample of articles from Caf¨¦babel following the Paris attacks, the article consequently employs a theoretical foundation that merges elements from writings applying three distinct concepts, namely, constructive journalism, journalism as practice and cosmopolitanism
%K Citizen journalism
%K constructive news
%K cosmopolitanism
%K Europeanization
%K globalisation
%K participation
%K youth
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1464884918770524