We're getting a makeover

THE MAY 2025 ISSUE

We're getting a makeover

Hello everyone,

We’re thrilled to unveil the new layout of our monthly newsletter! We’ve worked on the design, sections, and formats to better share our thoughts and keep you informed about the latest news from our media outlet, studio, and network.

To mark this occasion, we’re launching a new series of posts written by members of our team to share our behind-the-scenes insights and reflections, and to give you a glimpse into what we do. This first piece, written by Marine Doux, looks back at Médianes’ scaling up—and the mission that will guide us in the years ahead.

In this issue, we also tell you about the redesign of La Déferlante’s website, the continuation of our “Creating a Media Outlet” training program, and bring you updates on our latest publications.

And if you have any feedback on this new format, please let us know!

Enjoy the read,

MATHILDE CARLIER, PROJECT MANAGER AT MÉDIANES

Behind the Scenes

POST OF THE MONTH

A New Initiative to Strengthen Media Independence

Since Médianes’ beginnings five years ago, we have supported the emergence of new voices through a media outlet, a studio, and a network.

Today, as the landscape and needs of independent media continue to evolve, we want to take the next step to ensure we remain relevant.

In this post, Marine Doux, co-founder and editorial director of Médianes, shares our reflections from the past few months as well as our new mission: to empower the new voices we have helped bring to the forefront.

© Christelle Perrin

From the media's perspective

OUR LATEST PUBLICATIONS

Croque-Marseille happy hours, when media springs from connection

BY MARINE SLAVITCH — MÉDIANES

By transforming his living room into a space for professional networking, food journalist Ezéchiel Zérah has built a loyal audience that is connected both to one another and to him. Last month, our reporter Marine Slavitch attended one of the Croque-Marseille happy hours and tells us about this model of local, low-key networking.

Krytyka Polityczna collateral victim of the freeze on American humanitarian aid

BY MARCO CARLONE AND AGNIESZKA WIŚNIEWSKA — SPHERA NETWORK

In this article, Agnieszka Wiśniewska, editor-in-chief of Krytyka Polityczna—an independent Polish media outlet and member of our Sphera network—explains how the budget cuts to U.S. media grant programs ordered by Donald Trump have undermined her newsroom. This account was originally published in our In Vivo newsletter.

Our approach

STUDIO NEWS

A New Website for La Déferlante

For nearly a year, we have been working with the team at the feminist media outlet La Déferlante on a redesign of their website. The goal: to create a platform that reflects the outlet’s diversity while optimizing the user experience and the site’s performance.

Now that the new website is live, we’d like to give you a behind-the-scenes look at our work: from adapting the media’s artistic direction for the web to creating mockups, as well as providing strategic consulting to support this redesign.

Visit revueladeferlante.fr

© Christelle Perrin

Stay tuned for more

• Ten new media outlets have joined the Program.Médianes Over the next 9 months, we’ll be supporting Arrêt sur images, Disclose, La lettre de Cancan, Les Surligneurs, MOB, Pioche!, Prison Insider, Quoi de mum, Soif la revue, and Vertige Media. Here’s a glimpse into the program’s first few days.

• New projects and clients for the studio
  : We’re thrilled to begin working on new projects—with the cultural media outlet Cult.News, Reporters Without Borders, and the Asian culture magazine Koï Magazine—as well as to continue our collaborations with Vert, La Déferlante, and Beaux Arts Magazine, all of which are projects our studio has previously supported.

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THAT WAY, YOU'LL KNOW

→ Our “Creating a Media Outlet” training course is back in June! Designed to support both new launches and restructuring efforts, this course is aimed at those who wish to build a solid editorial and business model. Funding through OPCO or France Travail may be available. Pre-registration is now open!

→ For Ethical Coverage of Migration

Médianes is a signatory to the Marseille Charter on Information and Migration, a collective document intended to guide journalists toward accurate, comprehensive, and respectful coverage of migration issues.

→ Vert Launches Its Conference Series with a New Website

Strategy, design, and web development: We’re proud to unveil the new website for “Vert, le futur,” a series of themed conferences launched by the environmental media outlet that we had the pleasure of working with.

→ La Revue des Médias discusses donations

Marine Doux, co-founder and editorial director of Médianes, talks to the INA about the work done with StreetPress, Vert and Disclose to structure donation-based business models. To find out more about these projects, visit our studio's website.

→ Media Events in May

We’re launching our industry events calendar: project launches, festivals, roundtables, meetings… A tool to help you stay informed so you don’t miss a thing. And if you’d like to highlight your event, consider placing an ad.

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