Get trained
Creating and running a media outlet is a skill you can learn. Our training programs guide you through everything a media project entails, beyond just editorial content: operations, financing, management, marketing, administration, and more.
No matter what stage you're at, whether in a group or with a personalized program: train to take it to the next level!
Our approach
Knowing how to tell a story isn't enough: you also have to manage, secure funding, organize, lead a team, and much more. Our training programs support projects at every stage of their journey, helping to consolidate and strengthen them over the long term, in two formats.
- Tailor-made: personalized training to work with you or your team on topics specific to your company, media outlet, nonprofit, or organization. Strategy, management, design, web, marketing: we bring in the expertise best suited to your needs.
- As part of a community, with a path designed to adapt to each media project’s stage of development: the “Create a Media Outlet” training program, to build a media outlet that is sustainable and has an impact, followed by the ProgramMédianes, to consolidate and scale up. Training in this way also means joining a community: building a network, supporting one another, and exchanging ideas with industry experts and other media founders, rather than going it alone.
After eight sessions of our group training programs and having supported nearly 70 independent media outlets in total, one insight has become clear: there is a real need for spaces where people can come together and learn as a group.
Photos: Maxime Giol for Médianes
Tell us about your project
Tell us where you're at, and we'll help you find the best path forward: group training or personalized coaching.
Customized training for you or your team
We offer customized in-house training to help you and your team develop your skills and gain a broader perspective on your project. Strategy, management, design, web, marketing: a way for us to learn together.
Among the training programs we’ve conducted: StreetPress, which we helped master content sponsorship on social media. Les 3 Ours, in preparing an application for an FSEIP grant. Printemps Écologique, on topics related to design and sales campaigns. Mouvement, in developing its strategic and marketing skills. And Vert, in gaining editorial and technical control over its website.
Topics as varied as your needs, to equip your team for the long term. Contact us to discuss them.
Two group training sessions, designed as a journey
Turn your project into a media outlet that makes an impact and stands the test of time with “Créer un média.” The program Médianessteps in to support consolidation and scaling up. These are two stages of the same journey, to be followed depending on where your project stands.
To turn your project into a media outlet that makes an impact and stands the test of time
The “Creating a Media Outlet” Training Course
A 7-day training program to lay the groundwork for your media project, whether it’s still just an idea or already up and running. Marketing, editorial identity, business model, digital ecosystem: everything you need to build a viable and cohesive project that stands the test of time.
- Stadium: just an idea or already underway?
- Duration: 40 hours over 7 days
- Location: Paris, in a hybrid (in-person and remote) format
- Starting at €1,500 (excluding tax), depending on your status. Partial or full coverage may be available through France Travail, OPCO, or other organizations.
To strengthen your project and scale it up
The Program Médianes
The Program broughtMédianes together four cohorts of media founders between 2024 and 2026 to help them solidify their projects and scale up.
- Duration: approximately 9 months part-time
- Location: Paris, in a hybrid (in-person and remote) format
- Media projects supported: 40, across 4 cohorts (2024–2026)
- 150€ (excluding tax) per month, for 9 months
- Acceptance by a panel of industry professionals based on application materials
Médianes?
Providing information isn't enough. We also need the resources to produce, fund, and disseminate that information in order to have a real impact. Médianesis the toolkit for media independence: editorial, economic, and technological.
With a media outlet, a studio, and a network, we help media organizations, institutions, and NGOs build sustainable and ethical models that directly serve the public, both in France and across Europe.
How can you pay for your education?
We are Qualiopi-certified, which allows us to secure funding based on your status. Options include: your OPCO if you are an employee; the AFDAS freelance fund for independent journalists; France Travail if you are looking for work; or your training insurance fund if you are self-employed.
You also have the option of financing your training with your own funds, through installment payments.
Please note: Our training courses are not yet eligible for CPF funding.
Email us at [email protected], and we'll work with you to find the right solution.
We're here for you every step of the way.
We strengthen the editorial, financial, and technical independence of media organizations, NGOs, and institutions through customized projects and training programs.
We stand alongside you—leaders and your teams—to design and implement the strategy that best aligns with your editorial vision, the needs of your audiences, and your organizational reality.