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- BEHIND THE SCENES (Marsactu) — The Marsactu team is celebrating 10 years of independent journalism in Marseille. For the occasion, the newsroom is publishing an illustrated long-form piece retracing its history and evolution. It notably recounts its challenges and successes through personal anecdotes and milestone news stories.
- FORMAT (Medians) — With its Micromag, URBANIA offers a 100% digital format inspired by Instagram stories: vertical slides, videos, interactive content… A device that blends social media and magazine codes, but hosted on its own site, to maintain control of its distribution and free itself from platform algorithms.
- SOURCES (Nieman Lab) — To investigate upcoming layoffs in the U.S. civil service, ProPublica is using an original method to gather testimonies from affected civil servants : a giant screen on a truck, parked near federal buildings, inviting them to contact the newsroom.
- AI (The Atlantic) — To train its AIs, Meta prioritized books and scientific studies. But unwilling to pay or spend time acquiring the rights, the company turned to pirated libraries. The Atlantic created a search engine to explore the catalogs exploited by Meta.
- AI (Futurism) — By drawing from everywhere on the web — legally or not — AIs are increasingly training on content generated by other AIs. A form of digital cannibalism that limits its development potential. Ironically, good AI detectors could have prevented this phenomenon.
- INDEPENDENCE (Medians) — After the media, Vincent Bolloré continues to expand his grip on publishing through Hachette. In response, around a hundred publishing houses mobilize and publish Overflow Bolloré, a collection of texts to denounce this offensive and defend pluralism.
- FORMAT (Adweek) — Email inboxes gave media outlets a direct channel, relatively shielded from algorithms, to distribute their newsletters. But Google and Apple are now integrating new features: automatic sorting, AI-powered summaries… Could this turn our inboxes into social networks?
- LOCAL PRESS (Newsberg) — In the state of Oregon in the United States, a local media outlet is betting on a coloring book to showcase its journalism. Drawings by local artists, major news stories and QR codes linking to articles: an original idea to diversify revenue streams and reach its audience differently through a community project.
- INTERNET (Noema) — Faced with a web homogenized by digital giants, Maria Farrell and Robin Berjon are calling for a "rewilding" of the Internet. The goal: to move from a fragile monoculture to a thriving digital ecosystem, driven by decentralization, interoperability, and the emergence of alternative economic models.
- DESIGN (Fast Company) — Typefaces have a profound cultural impact. Ubiquitous, they silently influence the way we share ideas, values, and information. They don't merely carry messages—they shape them, and therefore deserve to be chosen thoughtfully.
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