Editorial Strategy
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The video game press is bearing the brunt of a series of crises and business decisions that are undermining newsrooms. Some of its journalists have chosen to respond by launching their own media outlets and thereby regaining control over their business model.
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Media organizations must also consider their technological independence, and this approach is accessible to media organizations of all sizes. To help you, this guide provides an overview of the risks and highlights best practices already implemented by independent media organizations.
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Media outlets denounce tech giants' surveillance while engaging in it themselves, reflexively collecting data on their readers. Legal, editorial, environmental risks: the cost is rarely calculated. What if knowing your audience meant less surveillance, not more?
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Reaching new audiences is a priority for many newsrooms. But between the temptation to expand reach and the actual capacity to do so, there is often an underestimated gap in resources, preparation, and strategy. Three questions to ask yourself before you start.
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What is design really for in an independent media outlet? Far more than just looking good: it clarifies an editorial line, drives subscriptions, makes an article a pleasure to read, and sometimes, helps you scale. Many commented examples to understand editorial design.
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Creating a media outlet, yes, but not at any cost. Not at the expense of precarity, burnout, a project without foundations. Because before it's an editorial project, a media outlet is an entrepreneurial venture.
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Project management is the blind spot in newsrooms. Investment goes into formats, tools, and hiring, but rarely into how work flows, coordinates, and gets validated. Three resources to try to change that.
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At the Perugia International Journalism Festival, the Wikimedia Foundation shared how it's working to retain its readers in a web transformed by AI. A valuable insight for media outlets that depend on their direct connection with the public.
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Viktor Orbán's Hungary appears as a laboratory for the political and economic asphyxiation of independent media. A model spreading across Europe with the far right, despite new European legal tools. Interview with Pavol Szalai from Reporters Without Borders.
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By pooling their investigations, Scottish local media outlets are seeking to build a collective voice on energy transition and to influence national policy decisions from across Scotland.
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After a decade spent wrestling with business models, European newsrooms now face legal and political pressures that demonstrate — as the United States learned before them — that money cannot solve everything.
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Press freedom violations are no longer isolated incidents. In its report, Ofalp documents 91 cases in 2024. Behind these reports lies an economic reality: for independent media, each lawsuit, each intimidation can become an existential threat.