- FORMATS (Medians) — As the country enters an uncertain electoral period with potentially dramatic consequences, some media outlets have reorganized themselves to provide their readers with resources and tools to understand the weeks ahead. We have compiled for you the initiatives and formats put in place by dozens of newsrooms.
- DIVERSITY (Mediapart Blog) — How can discrimination in the press be tackled when official bodies themselves are putting up barriers? Six associations are denouncing the conditions imposed on certain journalists when issuing press cards: Veils banned, use of deadnames for transgender journalists… They are calling on the CCIJP to change its practices.
P.S.: Two weeks ago we published this interview with Rémi-Kenzo Pagès, spokesperson for AJAR (Association of Anti-racist and Racialized Journalists), one of the organizations behind the statement.
- JOURNALISM (404 Media) — Adapting your editorial strategy to Google's preferences? A misguided approach for 404 Media — and it's hard to disagree — which notes that with each post on X published by Elon Musk, sensational headlines proliferate. Formats that are often superficially covered, but have the advantage of ranking well in search engines and — most importantly — getting clicked.
- TECH (Apple Insider) — Sometimes media outlets manage to get their interests heard by Big Tech. That's what happened with Apple, which was preparing a new Safari feature to hide certain parts of a website, including ads. An option that was apparently abandoned after protests from French and British media outlets who felt the company could undermine their business model.
- AI (New York Times) — While some media outlets make at least an effort to develop charters governing their use of AI, others deliberately deceive their readers. This is the case with BNN Breaking which offered articles attributed to supposedly recognized journalists and read by millions of readers. But its content was generated with AI and the journalists' identities were entirely fabricated.
P.S.: Discover the charters developed by several media organizations regarding their use of artificial intelligence.
- CONSUMPTION (NiemanLab) — Don't we tend to overestimate how much information we consume? Spoiler, the answer is yes. That's what this study examined by Nieman Lab reveals. The researchers used a tracker to measure survey respondents' "actual" consumption rather than relying solely on their self-reported figures.
- SOCIAL MEDIA (Télérama) — By default, Meta will stop recommending "political" content to users on its platforms. A decision that raises questions, particularly during this crucial election period when media should play an important role rather than be sidelined. Moreover, there is no way to determine which topics will be classified as "political" by the company.
- JOURNALISTS (Poynter) — American journalist Taylor Six was producing a guide for journalists covering addiction when she realized many journalists were struggling with it themselves. She created a support network, the Journalist Recovery Network, to share resources and stories from fellow journalists.
- IMPACT (Disclose) — Pierre Leibovici, journalist at Disclose, describes in this LinkedIn post how the investigative media outlet
- AI (The Verge) — Ask Google's AI if you should add glue to your pizza and it'll tell you without batting an eye that it's an excellent idea. Katie Notopoulos, a journalist at Business Insider, decided to have some fun by publishing her own recipe for a "glue pizza." The result: the AI — which seems to have trouble with sarcasm — now recommends following her recipe! Proof that the tool remains easily influenced.
