Update as of November 4, 2026. Thank you to everyone who responded to our call for input! The survey is now closed. Based on your responses, the Club has taken its first shape: “Pour les médias,” a French-speaking community of media professionals, which we are launching with Marion Wyss. Read the launch article and join the community.
Why Join a Club?
Producing quality journalism with a viable business and human resources model is a challenge that every independent journalist today is all too often left to solve on their own. As we work with various newsrooms, the same challenges keep coming up: a lack of time, smaller teams, tight budgets, expensive tools, and the need to build and retain a loyal audience.
Independence isn't just a matter for individual newsrooms. It is also built collectively, around the journalistic, ethical, and human values that already unite us.
What We've Learned
Since 2020, we have been supporting founders, executives, journalists, and students in partnership with more than 150 news organizations, including Contexte, Disclose, INA, La Croix, Le Cri, Le Monde, RSF, Socialter, and Vert, as well as more than 5,000 readers each month.
In France, the Programme Médianes offers an eight-month group mentoring program for founders of emerging media outlets. Four editions later, around forty media outlets have been supported, including Arrêt sur images, Climax, Flaash, Gaze, Les 3 Ours, Quoi de Mum, and Vertige.
At the European level, we coordinate Sphera Network, a network of ten media outlets in seven countries: 444 (Hungary), El Salto (Spain), Popaganda (Greece), StreetPress (France), Krytyka Polityczna (Poland), and VD News (Italy).
You told us that the adventure shouldn’t end with the training, but should continue in a place where we could keep meeting and helping one another. The Club is the next step in that journey.
What the Club Offers
A forum. A permanent space for discussion among journalists, executives, and creators, where they can explore independence in all its forms—economic, editorial, and technological—as well as administration, design, marketing, technology, and management.
Tools. Ours and those of our partners, at negotiated rates, to save time and reduce costs.
A directory and a map. A Europe-wide directory of independent media outlets, designed to help you find peers, raise your profile, and build connections across borders.
Training and Resources. Exclusive access to our training programs and events, supplemented by our editorial content, practical guides, and analyses of industry trends.
Let's Build the Club Together
Please fill out our questionnaire to help us understand your needs, how you use our services, and your level of interest. We'll be in touch with next steps.
Written by 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.
Written by Sixtine Yung
Sixtine is a project manager for support and training; she helps project leaders launch, organize, and develop their initiatives.
