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- PAPER (The Guardian) — Zines are having a moment, especially among young people. Faced with a web deemed sterile and artificial, these handmade micro-magazines are perceived as more authentic forms of expression. Plot twist: AI usage is now making its way into a practice historically associated with "handmade" and protest movements.
- JOURNALIST (The Dial) — How do you investigate when your sources risk retaliation, your phone may be under surveillance, or you face exile from your own country? Three journalists from El Salvador, Georgia, and Cuba share their testimonies along with the methods and tools they use every day.
- MANAGEMENT (Medians) — Testing new formats, publishing across multiple platforms, adapting production schedules: newsrooms today need to do more… without necessarily having more time or resources. We've gathered our tips and tools to help you better organize and clarify, step by step, your editorial production.
- INDEPENDENCE (Le Monde) — Should conscience and assignment clauses, which benefit journalists, be extended to authors? That's the idea defended in this opinion piece following Vincent Bolloré's power play at Grasset. Objective: to grant greater freedom to authors in order to prevent them from becoming trapped in the political-media empires of great fortunes.
- INDEPENDENCE (Arrêt sur images) — A "Grasset affair" that sparked strong, widespread indignation… and a somewhat "hypocritical" response? Many authors have publicly expressed concern about the situation, multiplying opinion pieces and media appearances. But some have remained far more silent in the face of other devastation caused by the Bolloré empire.
- MODEL (RFI) — Scientific journalism is in crisis: layoffs, takeovers, threats of closure… Yet climate and health issues occupy a central place in public debate and demand rigorous coverage. As often happens, the press remains subject to economic trade-offs that relegate its public interest mission to the background.
- TECH (Nieman Lab) — Making platforms pay to fund journalism: Australia is trying a new approach after a mixed first attempt. Version 2 includes a tax if companies refuse to negotiate to avoid the Canadian scenario, where Meta simply banned news outlets. It's better, but unfortunately still far from perfect.
- AI (Minecraft.fr) — Minecraft.fr, the leading media outlet dedicated to the famous video game, breaks down in numbers the impact of AI on its business model. The finding: while its visibility in Google remains stable, clicks have been cut in half. Meanwhile, AIs are massively reusing its content, sending it only residual traffic in return.
- GENDER (Reporterre) — Three out of four names cited in the media are men. That's what the GenderedNews research project found, as reported by Reporterre… which took the opportunity to examine its own articles. Despite better results than other newsrooms, the ecology media outlet has an
- FORMAT (WIRED) — Since 2014, Amelia Dimoldenberg has been interviewing celebrities at a London fast-food restaurant as part of fake dates: the Chicken Shop Dates. A worldwide hit that has taken her to the red carpets of the Oscars. In this interview with WIRED, the journalist by training reflects on her ambivalent relationship with platforms and on the relationships between "creators" and traditional media.
