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Owen Huchon

April 15, 2024

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HugoDécrypte launches Elan, Nylon returns to print and the New York Times invests (again) in audio

HugoDécrypte launches Elan, a new media outlet and job board for young people, Nylon makes an unexpected return to print for its 25th anniversary, and the States-General of Information publish a report on the cost of information for media.

  1. NEW MEDIA (Radio France) — HugoDécrypte launches a new media outlet, Elan, dedicated to youth employment. At the same time, the journalist and YouTuber is opening a job listing site, also aimed at helping the next generation enter the job market.
  2. PRESS CLIPPING (Axios)— After shutting down its print edition in 2017 and transitioning to a 100% digital model, Nylon is returning to glossy paper for its 25th anniversary. A back-to-basics move that several American media outlets have made in recent years.
  3. TRAINING (Racket) — Successive layoffs in newsrooms and gloomy articles about media economics naturally lead some journalism school students to wonder: "what am I doing here?" Eight American students shared their fears and ambitions.
  4. ECONOMICS (Strategies) — In France, news production cost media outlets more than three billion euros in 2023, of which 70% was spent on salaries, according to a study presented by the States General of Information.
  5. NEW MEDIA (RFI) — Florent Peiffer, president of Urbania France, was a guest on the Media Workshop to discuss the development of the French version of the media outlet that aims to make "the ordinary extraordinary", originally launched in Quebec nearly twenty years ago and which arrived in France in 2020.
  6. BUSINESS (The Verge) — It's the story of a media outlet once valued at billions of dollars and winner of prestigious awards, that became a shadow of itself in just a few years. While the future seemed promising for Vice, the whims and excesses of part of its leadership led to the downfall of an entire newsroom.
  7. INNOVATION (Axios) — The New York Times plans to soon offer "the vast majority" of its articles in audio format. An innovation made possible by artificial intelligence that will make the American newspaper — which already has its own audio app and several successful podcasts — a powerhouse in the sector.
  8. INDEPENDENCE (Mediapart) — « How i-Télé became CNews »: Account of an aggressive editorial overhaul, begun when Vincent Bolloré took the helm of the Canal+ group in 2015, and which Mediapart recounts through a series of testimonies from some thirty current or former employees.
  9. GAMES (Media Review) — Whether offered through external providers or thanks to their own « crossword experts », media outlets — and their readers — love games. A gaming offer far from being a side note and which represents, for some, a major pillar of their diversification strategy.
  10. ARCHIVES (The Verge) — Aruba, a small Caribbean island, is archiving its historical heritage on Internet Archive, a first for the platform specialized in digital archiving. In total, over 100,000 documents, including images, videos, and newspapers, will be preserved online and accessible to everyone.

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