Sacha Morard steps down as CTO of Le Monde and launches Edgee, an edge computing platform for developers
Hello Sacha! You’ve been CTO of the Le Monde group for 6 years now, and you’re about to…
Digital publishing professional since 2006, Marion started by working for pure-player press before larger national titles in France including ELLE Magazine, Le Nouvel Obs and Challenges where she was Chief Digital Officer until 2018. Following this, Marion founded Underlines, a consultancy agency for digital publishers, later working more closely with Poool who acquired the company in 2021. Since then, she has taken the role of Associate Director at Poool, where she founded The Audiencers in 2022. She also lectures on reader revenue models for publishers at various journalism schools in France and Switzerland.
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The French publisher’s quest to reach new audiences
We met on a cold Friday morning, in a noisy café in Paris’ 15th arrondissement. Coffee in hand, Bérénice Lajouranie, Managing Director of the daily business newspaper Les Echos, accompanied by Violaine Degas, Digital Director, begins to share the inside story of their recent quest to reach new audiences. Recounting the context and vision behind this major digital project, I learn about the reasoning behind this work, how it unfolded, the KPIs measured and results attained.
From the brink of bankruptcy to digital transformation: the impressive story of Les Coops de l’info
Can you introduce the Les Coops de l’info group? Les Coops de l’info is a cooperative press group…
Le Monde launches new mobile app feature to combat news avoidance & information fatigue
According to the latest Reuters Digital News Report, 36% of people worldwide choose to avoid news. From a business perspective, this represents a significant number of readers who may never subscribe to any news title or are at risk of unsubscribing soon. For the French newspaper Le Monde, this matter is taken seriously...
Subscriber retention: what can digital publishers learn from the audio & video streaming industry?
After starting her career at Molotov and Deezer, Lisa Boucher is now Head of Digital Marketing & Business…
The Audiencers’ Festival in Paris according to Marion: the ‘best ofs’ from our event
With 222 digital publishing professionals joining us for the day, and too many takeaways to fit into a single article, our very first festival in Paris didn't disappoint
Le Parisien’s new homepage: optimizing editorial and conversion simultaneously
We met with Vincent Briot, Chief Product Officer at Le Parisien, who told us about their homepage optimization project, a page which receives 12 million visits per month.
Migrating 1.2 million articles to Arc XP: a look behind-the-scenes as l’Express changes CMS
How did L'Express switch CMS tools without a trace?
Le Monde in English, 6 months later
In this exclusive interview, Arnaud Aubron, Le Monde’s Head of Development and lead of Le Monde in English, tells us about how and why they took on this project, the progress made so far and how the publisher has managed to run a whole ‘second daily newspaper’ in another language.