Presse - Article - Quel avenir pour les pure players journalistiques en France ? Aurélie AUBERT, « Le paradoxe du journalisme participatif. Motivations, compétences et engagements des rédacteurs des nouveaux médias », Terrains et Travaux, n°15, 2009, p. 171-190 Franck BOUSQUET, Nikos SMYRNAIOS, « L’information en ligne et son territoire : positionnement comparé entre un pure player départemental et un quotidien régional » in Jacques NOYER, Bruno RAOUL et Isabelle PAILLIART (dir.), Médias et territoires : permanences et mutations, Presses Universitaires du Septentrion, 2013 (à paraître) Nicola BRUNO, Rasmus Kleis NIELSEN, Survival is Success: Journalistic Online Start-Ups in Western Europe, Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, Oxford, 2012 CEVIPOF, Mediapolis - Résultats de l’enquête, 2010 Jean-Marie CHARON, Patrick LE FLOCH, La presse en ligne, La Découverte, 2011 Jean-Marie CHARON, « La presse magazine, un média à part entière », Réseaux, n°105, 2001 Caroline DATCHARY, « Ce que le Web 2.0 fait à l’autonomie journalistique. Cyril LEMIEUX, Mauvaise presse.
A Groupon for Newspapers Newspapers, in danger of having their advertising lunch eaten by Groupon and its ilk, have teamed up to form an online deals platform. Eight publishing and media companies are launching the common digital shopping platform, called Find n Save. The eight are Advance Digital, A.H. Belo, Cox Media Group, Gannett, Hearst Corp., MediaNews Group, McClatchy, and The Washington Post Co. The consortium, set to be announced today, is expected to roll out Find n Save’s online ad products across its members’ 200-plus newspapers, including The Dallas Morning News, Arizona Republic, and The Miami Herald. Newspapers have been racing to catch up for a while with the likes of Groupon and its copycats, including tech giants like Google, Amazon, and Yahoo, which have been slapping deal-finder services on their websites. “It’s an industry movement to embrace a single advertising platform,” Tippie said.
Edwy Plenel, le modèle économique de Mediapart Les nouveaux médias du web A l’inverse de Rue89 et de son modèle gratuit »pragmatique », le plus ouvert possible sur différentes sources de revenus, Mediapart, lancé en mars 2008 sur un modèle d’accès payant, n’entend vivre que de ses abonnements. Le site d’information généraliste « indépendant et participatif » semble en passe de réussir prochainement à atteindre son point d’équilibre financier sur ce seul modèle, auquel quasiment personne ne croyait au lancement. Avec aujourd’hui près de 40 000 abonnés, une communauté en forte expansion depuis « l’affaire Bettencourt », Mediapart et sa trentaine de salariés visent à court terme les 55 000 abonnés, synonymes de réussite du pari initial. Rencontre avec Edwy Plenel, co-fondateur, Président et Directeur de la publication autour du modèle de Mediapart et de ceux des nouveaux médias du web. Première partie Seconde partie
News agencies must evolve or meet extinction | Anthony DeRosa Imagine you’re a reporter and you suddenly witness a major news event occurring right before your eyes. Do you snap it to the wire, file a story to your website, or tweet it out to your followers? If you’re at the AP, you damn well better not choose the latter. In a perfect world, you’d want to do all the above, though your employer is going to likely want you to do the first two before you tweet. An extension of that website is the information we post on our social media accounts, at Google+, Twitter and on Facebook. The wire is still a huge part of our business and always will be. In order to compete with these new and existing technologies, our wire will need to increasingly become better and faster, not only for our subscribers but for the reporters using it to file reports. The institutional brand building you create by having your journalists be great on social platforms cannot be underestimated.
Mediapart: un média à part, un modèle payant ! Mediapart fêtera son cinquième anniversaire le 16 mars prochain. Pour l’occasion, le pure player a annoncé une batterie de nouveaux projets. Rentable depuis 2 ans, le site d’information est le seul média français a avoir gagné le pari du tout payant… Frenchweb en profite pour prendre le pouls des autres principaux pure players français. Au sommaire : Le succès de Mediapart en chiffres et en images! Fondé le 16 mars 2008, Mediapart est sur le point de fêter son cinquième anniversaire. Les personnages clefs de Mediapart Près de 5 ans après son lancement, le 16 mars 2008, Mediapart compte aujourd’hui 45 collaborateurs, dont 31 journalistes. [Portrait] Hélène Fromen : madame exécutive de Médiapart Après notamment être passée par Le Monde Interactif et 20 minutes, Hélène Fromen, 41 ans, a rejoint en 2009 les équipes de Mediapart comme directrice exécutive. Où en sont les autres pure players de l’info ? La fiche société de Mediapart sur Societe.FrenchWeb.fr
The newsonomics of Anton Chekhov I was first struck by this Chekhov quotation in the theater program: “Russians glory in the past, hate the present, and fear the future.” It’s not easy to find that exact quote on the web, but it certainly sums up much of the playwright’s work and his assessment of the national character into which he was born in 1860. That thought also seems to say too something about news industry today. Those halcyon days of monopoly dailies weren’t as wonderful as the rose-colored rearview memories recall. The present is an unending struggle — the near future, at least, looking as bad or worse than today. 2012 budgeting, still in full swing at many newspaper companies, is too much like a medical examiner’s exercise. Last week, one news exec told me about the gap between his advertising department’s projections — more shades of down — and the news operation’s need for increased funding in the once-in-every-four years cycle of a presidential election and the Olympics. But to whom? Past:Present:Future:
Le succès de Mediapart en chiffres et en images Fondé le 16 mars 2008, Mediapart est sur le point de fêter son cinquième anniversaire. Le site d’information, rentable depuis 2 ans, fait figure d’exception dans le paysage des pure players français. Totalement transparent, le média a profité de l’occasion pour lever le voile sur une batterie de chiffres révélateurs d’un business modèle qui fonctionne ! 5,9. 702 853. 64 226. 1,5. 20. 2700. 45. 10. Facts, fiction and friction over the state of free daily newspapers | Media Has the much vaunted free newspaper model run into the sand? That's the view of Christoph Riess, chief executive of the the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA). During his update on world press trends at last week's Vienna congress, he said the "main decline" in newsprint concerned free titles. "For free dailies, the hype is over," he said, arguing that the number of free newspaper titles across the world has decreased. Though the closures were particularly pronounced in eastern Europe, because titles there were not economically sustainable, free newspapers took a big hit in 2010 elsewhere too. According to the survey quoted by Riess, there was a drop in total distribution to 24m copies last year compared to a high of around 34m in 2008. Riess said: "In many cities, too many free titles were launched. But the Dutch-based monitor of free newspapers, Piet Bakker, takes issue with Riess's claims and the statistics he cites. Sources: Newspaper Innovation/WAN-IFRA
Nonprofit news sites need to act more like digital businesses By Mayur Patel and Michele McLellan: In the emerging landscape of non-profit news, good journalism is not enough. Even with generous foundation support, high-quality reporting alone will not create an organization that can sustain its ability to produce news in the public interest. Instead, successful news organizations – even the nonprofit ones - have to act like digital businesses, making revenue experimentation, entrepreneurship and community engagement important pieces of the mix. Understanding how to create social and economic value and how to adapt and innovate are just as important as good content. The new study we just completed, “Getting Local,” offers a detailed look at some of the country’s leading online local nonprofit news ventures, providing data on how they are generating revenue, engaging users and cultivating donors. While none of the sites profiled has developed a clear business model yet, some of the key ingredients needed for success are becoming increasingly apparent:
WSJ Gets Personal With Gravity The Wall Street Journal quietly enabled a personalization feature today (or at least this is the first time I’ve noticed it). Articles are now automatically sorted based on what they think you’ll like to read. It’s powered by Los Angeles based startup Gravity. If you’re not familiar with Gravity – it was founded in 2008 by three former MySpace executives and has gone through many iterations. Originally the company was a site where people could chat with others about topics of interest. CEO Amit Kapur, formerly the COO of MySpace, wrote a guest blog post on TechCrunch last year talking about his vision around the future of personalization. It turns out that sites want this feature. That didn’t happen apparently (and I have no idea where things stand with TechCrunch and Gravity). WSJ News Personalized for You The articles and sections in this area of WSJ.com have been selected based partly on the stories you have previously read on the site. Like this: Like Loading...