The Journalism Foundation:
from the past to the future.

A long story

The Periodical Press Union was founded on May 6, 1891 and grouped successively the directors,editors-in-chief and editors of magazines

The concept "The Periodical Press"

The adjective 'perodical' came into use in 1721, to indicate publications that appeared consecutively for an indefinite period. The trm has been used aq a name since 1874.* *

Unesco uses the following definition of 'periodical press: “The newspaper is a primary source of information, while the purpose of periodicals is to select, summarize or comment on facts already reported in newspapers, magazines and other periodicals. Periodicals therefore come second or third *

A split...

Since its creation in 1891, the Union of the Periodical Press of Belgium has grouped directors and journalists. On May 5, 1980, it split into two bilingual groups: the "Union of Periodical Press Editors" (UEPP-UUPP) and the "Association of Periodical Press Journalists" (AJPP- VJPP). The associations shared premises, a secretariat and common service and remained together under one umbrella, the Federation of the Periodical Press of Belgium (FPPB) with parity between publishers and journalists.

In May 2001, the publishers decided to move and set up their own secretariat Bd Edmond Machtens 79 / 23 - 1080 Brussels. They leave the FPPB.

Fusion of forces.

In 2016, the two main associations of Belgian journalists decided to join forces. The "periodicals" joined the "dailies".

The VJPP and the AJPP thus ended up under the Flemish Association of Journalists (VVJ) andthe Association des JournalistesProfessionels (AJP) respectively.

* Stéphane Brabant, The triple birth of the periodical press

** Source The latest issue of Laurence Mundschau (UCL 2007)

The Periodical Press

precursor

to Google and Wikipedia

Paul Otlet, internet pioneer

An important president of the Periodic Press Union was Paul Otlet (1868 -1944). Together with Henri La Fontaine (1854-1943, Nobel Peace Prize in 1913) he invented the decimal classification (CDU) and the International Office of Bibliography, which later became Le Mundaneum, and moved from the Cinquantenaire in Brussels to Mons in 1993. Paul Otlet gave this description of a periodical: "it is part of the Trinity of writing, together with the newspaper and the book" *

His desire to make information as accessible as possible to as many people as possible, led him, together with Le Corbusier, to strive for a 'World City dedicated to knowledge'. Therefore Paul Otlet is considered a forerunner of the internet. His indexing of published works, more than 16 million files large,has been described by Le Monde as a 'C paper'.