Rise and death of media in Europe
On 27 December, the French daily newspaper Le Monde signed off their editorial with an ‘all our best wishes … to the written press’. It was a nod to Newsweek, the infamous American weekly which was launched in 2003, and which was forced to close in the last week of 2012. The wishes were meekly accepted by many disappearing print souls, including France-Soir, the Financial Times Germany and the Frankfurter Rundschau. The hashtag #lastprintissue was one of the earliest trending topics on twitter in 2013. Even the online media has suffered, such as Owni in France. Yet there is a discernable rise in independent medias, from Hamburg to Montreal, to offset the decline of the traditional (Illustration: © Adrien Le Coarer)
Profile: Owni, legendary French online data journalism giant
After Owni (pronounced ‘ovnii’) closed down on 21 December 2012, one of its former journalists, Sylvain Lapoix, explains what the Paris-based brand meant during its three years of existence on the French media landscape
journalism, citizen journalism, internet, paris, techno-media
STADTLICHH: Two guys, two gals, and their free magazine in Hamburg
Who said print was dead? Live from Hamburg, Martin, Valerie, Ulrike and Anne have created their own free city magazine, complete with hard-hitting feature reports, photo art and room for ‘the other’. 20, 000 copies have been released on a quarterly basis since December 2010
Mini crash course in European crowdfunding sites
A new impetus has been given to the media and creative sectors due to various crowdfunding platforms. To summarise the model of financing projects over the internet: I have the crowd, you have the funding
Apocalypse now (because it was already here)
How does the end of the world happen? Does a meteor crash into Earth, or does a tsunami come to engulf us, like the movies show? Does facebook start charging for its social network services? Anyway the apocalypse is already here - it's just that we've been too busy to notice it because we have been tagging ourselves on FourSquare
economy, politics, unemployment, lgbt, youth, society, social networks
Léa Jeanmougin from Città magazine on Montreal and Europe
The French-Quebecer is originally from Marseille, but has been living in Montreal for the past six years. In October 2012 she set up a magazine called Città - Italian for 'city' - which aims to share little pieces of Montreal with the world, while bringing the world to Montreal. The first issue is devoted to Berlin, Rome, Warsaw and Milan
warsaw, berlin, milan, media, rome, art, rock, cities, techno-media
