Mediapart d edwy plenel biography

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He is the president and co-founder of Mediapart , an independent, web-based investigative journal, and was a speaker at the Nov. The transcript below has been translated from French and lightly edited. When Mediapart launched in , no one thought that general information could pay off online. Everyone believed that digital technology required free information.

We defend the idea that quality information needs work and that this work has value. We defend that our information is useful, credible, original, and unpublished and that if readers have confidence in this information and in its independence, they can support us by subscribing. In my opinion, public interest journalism is about building a bond of trust that defends the value of information.

Information has value, so it must be supported: by subscription or by donations. I think it is a model applicable in other parts of the world. In Africa, for example, today there are payment methods made directly via telephone subscriptions, and there may be solidarity subscription methods. We must not give up. When we launched in France more than 10 years ago, no one thought the paid model would ever work.

We live solely on the support of our subscribers. It is the same path that must be taken, by adapting to local contexts. Our logo is inspired by a 19th-century engraving of a newspaper seller shouting in the street to get people to buy the newspaper. By choosing this logo when we are in online media, we wanted to show that it is this tradition that must be defended, using all the weapons offered by social networks and by the digital horizontal circulation.

The digital revolution means we are no longer above this readership, we are no longer looking at them from above. We are in a much less vertical relationship and readers can question us. This is why Mediapart was built on two legs: a paid newspaper and a free participatory club. If you support Mediapart, we offer you a platform to relay your commitments, your fights, your alerts, and discuss and challenge the newspaper.

Today, all the big legacy newspapers are trying to develop paid-access areas online. This crisis exists in other countries too, maybe not in every one of them. You have talked about partners, specifically in Spain; many national media companies have tried to exchange content with partners in other countries with fairly limited success. What have you experienced?

In our experience on the web, we have always done this in a very simple, horizontal way. We share contents and we make editorial exchanges very effortlessly. Today, even when traditional newspapers look for a partner in France, they sometimes turn to us! This was recently the case when the controversial revelations about the identity of the Italian writer Elena Ferrante came out.

Furthermore, we work around leaks like many other newspapers with a similar mindset. In comparison to what I have experienced during my 25 years at the paper Le Monde, including 10 years in management, this happens in a much more flexible, easy and straightforward fashion. But I think that legacy media has to manage two different universes at the same time.

On the one hand, they have established online activities, and they have made the mistake of positioning themselves on a free, ad-based model which worsens their crisis. The Guardian thought to be able to win over the New York Times market with this strategy and it is forced to face regular losses as a result. The Guardian came here to Mediapart to question us about our business model in the context of their latest considerations regarding how to make their readers pay for content.

On the other hand, they have to manage a cumbersome industry with a two-hundred-year history of labour division and hierarchy. Our journalists are much more versatile, they are used to work collectively on investigations and to share information. That is why, when foreign colleagues come to ask for collaboration, the partnerships ensue much more easily.

The problem that many large European media companies clearly encounter today comes as a result of this transition away from an old industry.

Mediapart d edwy plenel biography

You said there would be one or two survivors. Did you mean in each country or in the whole of Europe? Or worldwide? The bigger the audience, the bigger the advertising investments and the bigger the gains. Then you can also have some windows dedicated to information on the side. This is the model used by radio and commercial TV. Joseph Krasny. Mediapart depuis Alain Plenel.

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