Marine Doux
Marine is the president, co-founder, and editorial director of Médianes. She supports media organizations in their growth and ensures that our activities have an impact. She is currently a visiting scholar at Columbia University’s Tow Center for Digital Journalism.
Latest Posts
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Marine Doux and Baptiste Thevelein, co-founders of Médianes, and Marion Wyss have joined forces to form Pour les médias, a nonprofit organization that we now run together. First project: a community open to everyone involved in the media, to contribute to industry news, support one another, and share job openings among…
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People often talk about editorial or economic independence, but much less about the tools on which the media rely. Yet their freedom is also at stake here. Open source, sovereignty, and co-creation: these are the principles we believe are necessary for the media to regain control over their tools.
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Rest is often associated with laziness—or worse, with a luxury we can’t afford—especially as the school year begins and with the political urgency on the horizon. At [company name]Médianes, we believe the opposite: rest is essential for healthy development, both for oneself and for one’s team.
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We are launching the Club de Médianes, a space for independent media outlets to come together, share resources, and support one another. Journalists, executives, and creators: this club is being built with you, and we need your feedback to shape it.
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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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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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By making its fundraising appeal more visible, Le Monde group opens a sensitive debate. Can a central player mobilize a vital lever for media without heightening economic tensions, at a time when AI and platforms are reshaping editorial independence?
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In France, media outlets are building shared infrastructure to regain their independence from technology platforms.
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A decision that shakes newsrooms and highlights the urgency of reducing dependence on platforms