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- PLATFORM (The Conversation) — No, platforms won't save the press. Yet the success of personalities like Hugo Décrypte or Gaspard G suggests a bright future for journalism on TikTok, YouTube or Instagram. A look at the economic, sociotechnical and even philosophical limits of this misalliance.
- DESIGN (Medianes) — What if design were the most underestimated editorial tool? In this interview, Christelle Perrin (Medianes) and Thomas Steffen (Le Monde) offer practical advice for building a visual identity that truly serves information: an accessible design that speaks to readers and strengthens content.
- DESIGN (Medianes) — Building your visual identity doesn't necessarily mean multiplying images, typefaces and animations. Faced with graphic inflation on the web, more and more sites are adopting a minimalist approach and "low-tech" methods. A way to make the web more sustainable, accessible and independent.
- TOOL (The Guardian) — An invisible messaging service to protect your sources? That's what the Guardian offers with "Secure Messaging", a tool that hides confidential messages from its sources within the regular traffic of its app. The best part: the code is open source, allowing other media outlets to benefit from it for free.
- AI (Wired) — More and more people are using ChatGPT or Grok to verify the authenticity of images circulating on social networks. But rather than helping limit misinformation, these AIs produce more of it by regularly making errors.
- AI (Next) — Wikipedia tested automatic summaries generated by AI. Result: an outcry from contributors, worried about the encyclopedia's reputation and reliability. An experiment cut short that underscores the importance of transparency in AI use.
- ARCHIVE (The Atlantic) — With the Internet, we have never written, shared and communicated so much. Our memories are everywhere in the Cloud, scattered between WhatsApp and Google Photos. And yet historians and archivists fear a "digital dark age" where an excess of information makes the essential unreadable and vulnerable.
- ARCHIVE (Preserve This Podcast) — Largely dependent on third-party tools and services, podcasts are particularly exposed to the risk of disappearing. The Preserve This Podcast initiative offers resources — articles, podcasts and even a zine — to learn how to archive your audio productions.
- INDEPENDENCE (StreetPress) — The wealthy won't save media by buying it, and it's a millionaire saying so. For Olivier Legrain, patron of several left-wing media outlets, the solution lies in pooling resources. A conviction that notably encouraged him to participate in the purchase of a building intended to house the "House of Independent Media".
- DESIGN (Reading Machines) — Can we reinvent the way we read on the web? This digital lab experiments with various innovative approaches — interactive, visual, typographic — to rethink how we discover online content.
