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N°3 Vox POP - 2026
Holiday Special – 1/2
Published on 13 August 2026 in the newspaper Le Courrier Lavaux-Oron-Jorat
During the school holidays, the Vox POP newsroom changes scenery. The young journalists are scattered, sometimes several hundred kilometres apart — but the newspaper goes on.
For the first time, they are producing two issues remotely, from their different holiday locations. Journeys, encounters, discoveries and shared moments all become material for reporting. Two issues, two stages of the same summer adventure.
Célia – A first editorial that immediately connects with its readers
For her very first editorial, Célia takes on a demanding exercise: opening the newspaper, speaking as editor-in-chief and drawing the readers in.
With Voyage Voyage, she chooses a song almost everyone knows. Just a few words are enough for the melody to settle into our minds before the text takes us somewhere else entirely.
Travel soon becomes more than simply moving from one place to another. It becomes shared time, reunions, discoveries and memories created together.
For Célia, the journey ultimately takes place as much in the mind as in physical space … with Voyage Voyage in mind ...
Alix — Discovering … and knowing when to wait
With Dolce Vita, Alix takes us from Ticino all the way to Italy.
Carbonara and delicious ice cream … But before that come Ticino villages that can sometimes only be reached on foot or by cable car, landscapes, detours and unexpected discoveries.
Alix draws us into a world of surprises and simple pleasures — those moments that, once told, become the memories that give a journey its depth.
Her favourite – the Festival des jeux de La Tour-de-Peilz
Alix also demonstrates another strong journalistic instinct. Her interview about the Festival des jeux de La Tour-de-Peilz had already been completed before the holidays.
Rather than publishing it immediately, she chose to keep it “in the fridge”, waiting until the event became truly timely again.
Prepare, anticipate, then know when to wait: mission accomplished — and exclusively for Vox POP.
Mathieu — Drawing summer and telling a story of freedom
This time, our art director picks up his coloured pencils to create the visual world of the Holiday Special. His precise, warm and detail-filled drawings immediately give the issue its summer atmosphere — a visual identity that will also accompany the next edition.
But Mathieu is also a journalist. Travelling by camper van with his father and brother, he takes us from Brig to Arosa, to see the bears at the foot of the Weisshorn, before continuing to Lucerne and the Swiss Museum of Transport.
Behind the different stops and discoveries, something else emerges above all: a shared moment of freedom — driving, stopping, moving on, improvising and simply enjoying time together.
And in the end, isn’t this also the kind of freedom Célia is talking about in her editorial?
Zosia — The memory of a place
Zosia takes us to Pornichet on France’s Atlantic coast, not far from Nantes, where her family has been returning for almost a hundred years.
Rather than simply telling the story of this family tradition, she chooses a surprising angle: the “Plage des Libraires” and the story of the Parisian booksellers and publishers who once left their mark on the town.
This collective memory provides an almost poetic frame for her own story. From steam trains to the TGV, generations come and go and Pornichet changes, yet her family continues to return and create new memories there.
The wider history of the place and the intimate history of one family echo each other.
Zosia then brings her story back to the present through her encounter with Grégoire, who worked as a fisherman in Pornichet for more than twenty years. He too has witnessed the place changing — but from the sea. His voice creates a bridge between the past being told and the present being lived.
A travel story thus becomes a story about memory, transmission and change.
Reflection corner
Grégoire, fisherman in Pornichet
Grégoire’s interview gives Zosia’s report a particular depth.
After the memory of the place and that of her family, she introduces the voice of someone who has observed the same environment every day and over many years.
The perspective shifts: Pornichet is no longer simply a place filled with memories, but a living environment changing before the eyes of those who work there.
From a journalistic point of view, this encounter is particularly valuable. A few simple questions are enough to reveal experience, professional memory and a very tangible relationship with changes in the natural environment.
A powerful testimony that opens up many avenues for reflection.
Analysis of the journalistic productions
Beyond the individual topics themselves, what stands out most in this issue is the newsroom’s organisation and determination.
Producing a newspaper during the holidays, while everyone is in a different place, requires autonomy, coordination and a genuine determination to see the project through.
The young journalists continued to find topics, write, take photographs, conduct interviews, exchange ideas and meet deadlines despite the distance.
Their ability to maintain editorial standards under unusual circumstances may be one of the most important lessons of this edition.
A huge well done to the entire newsroom.
What comes next?
At the time of this publication, editions 4 is already in preparation, with the ambition of continuing to anchor the editorial team in the life of the region and to push each journalist’s autonomy even further.
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The collaboration with Le Courrier Lavaux-Oron-Jorat
Vox Pop is published once a month as an insert in Le Courrier Lavaux-Oron-Jorat, the district’s newspaper for the past 76 years.
This collaboration anchors the project in a concrete editorial reality: the young people know that they will be read, which creates — according to Thomas Zoller — “an additional positive tension.”
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