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- VIDEO (Embedded) — Tired of seeing her articles commented on by creators on TikTok, Mia Sato, a journalist for The Verge, decided to make her own videos. In this interview, she shares her thoughts on the strategy to adopt: should videos drive traffic to the original article, or exist as a journalistic format in their own right?
- PLATFORMS (Interview Magazine) — Getting news on TikTok has become common, especially among young people. But who produces the information consumed there? Journalist Taylor Lorenz discussed with six "news influencers" about their relationship with media, their conception of journalism, and their dependence on the platform.
P.S. According to a recent study by the Pew Research Center, 43% of people under 30 in the United States now regularly get their news on TikTok, compared to only 9% in 2020.
- PLATFORMS (Forbes) — Emily Baker White, a tech journalist, is publishing a book on TikTok and its algorithm, which has become the object of international desires and negotiations. Forbes publishes an excerpt, telling the remarkable story of how its recommendation system was designed, now essential in the circulation of information online.
- AI (404 Media) — SpongeBob SquarePants as a Nazi delivering a speech about the scourge of invasive fish: that's the kind of videos scrolling through OpenAI's new social network, Sora. The app, modeled on TikTok, is entirely dedicated to AI-generated content. 404 Media dived into its curious feed.
- AI (Nieman Lab) — Were you asked for an email to read the latest link? To counter its investigations being siphoned off by AIs that rank better on Google, 404 Media requires an email address to read its articles. But even inboxes aren't safe: the "AI-ification" of emails worries the media's cofounder, who fears seeing his newsletters automatically summarized and sorted.
- FORMAT (Medianes) — More than 30,000 people signed up for "The Battle of the Municipal Elections," StreetPress's project that maps municipalities at risk of swinging to the far right, combining investigations, training, and civic action. A €300,000 initiative marking a milestone for the media. Interview with its founder, Johan Weisz-Myara.
P.S. Interested in maps? We dedicated the latest edition of our Strategy newsletter to this topic. You can read an excerpt here and discover how other media outlets use this format.
- MARKETING (Adweek) — WIRED is pulling out all the stops to promote its latest issue: a mural in Brooklyn, posters in Washington and San Francisco accompanied by QR codes to access articles… An ambitious visibility campaign that also relies on its journalists who have become influencers through a highly personal video strategy.
- OPINION (Le Monde) — Governments are funding AI with billions, but forgetting the antidote to its excesses: journalism. Under economic pressure, media outlets are innovating and joining forces, but facing major risks and powerful adversaries, a political response is needed to protect them sustainably.
- MEDIA ETHICS (Objective) — Can media outlets talk about anything other than the genocide in Gaza? Using terms like "conflict," "escalation," or "humanitarian crisis" is anything but neutral, reminds author and journalist Plestia Alaqad.
- TOOL (Atlas of Feeds) — Far from algorithms, RSS feeds are a valuable tool for organizing your information monitoring. This "Atlas of Feeds" offers a massive thematic directory to enrich your routine, discover new media, and structure your information follow-up based on your favorite topics.
P.S. Don't know how RSS feeds work? We talked about it in our recent guide to monitoring information.
