Weekly Digest, Issue #187, 25 Oct 2026
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Vincent Peyregne
I have built my career at the crossroads of journalism, business, and technology, working for private news organisations and government institutions across France, Switzerland, Germany, and Spain.
Weekly Digest, Issue #186, 10 Oct 2026
Independent journalism in Europe is a challenging business, but a viable one. With modest, patient, largely non-VC funding, a sustained focus on audience revenue, outlets across the continent have built substantial businesses generating €2–8 million, some of them genuinely profitable.
Weekly Digest, Issue #185, 4 Oct 2026
The SPUR initiative published the first official version of its content telemetry standard. It generates verified usage data that publishers can use as an objective baseline in commercial licensing negotiations.
Weekly Digest, Issue #184, 26 Sept 2026
AI is reshaping how society produces, verifies, distributes, and consumes information. The transition to an AI-mediated information ecosystem is inevitable and accelerating. The next two to three years are critical for establishing the standards that will govern information for generations.
Weekly Digest, Issue #183, 20 Sept 2026
Polaris Vest’s tiny newsrooms are currently out-innovating global giants. By refusing to succumb to the "wait-and-see" trap, Polaris Media's regional branch has transformed from a collection of small-town outlets into an agile pioneer in AI implementation.
Weekly Digest Issuer #182, 12 Sept 2026
AI Overviews reduced search referrals to Wikipedia by about 5%, according to a University of Washington paper. Wikimedia shares data on articles in many languages, and the paper compares matching pages across different language editions. Most websites can’t make these kinds of comparisons.
Weekly Digest, Issue #181, 18 July 2026
Stop trying to be an "AI company". The future belongs to "OI companies" that treat first-hand origination as their primary asset and use AI merely as a tool to scale it.
Weekly Digest, Issue #180, 4 July 2026
Mather Economics data challenge the notion that platform disruption (e.g., changes in social media or search algorithms) is the sole cause of audience decline.
Weekly Digest, Issue #179, 27 June 2026
Why asking whether AI is better at our jobs than us is misleading: Shifting our view from thinking in terms of tasks to thinking in terms of systems
Weekly Digest, Issue #178, 20 June 2026
The Reuters Institute's DRN report identifies 2026 as a milestone year in which pathways between journalism and the public have become less direct and more fragmented. Audiences are increasingly drifting away from "owned and operated" branded properties.
Weekly Digest, Issue #177, 14 June 2026
The overwhelming majority of AI citations (approximately 84%) come from earned media. Paid and advertorial content is virtually non-existent in the citation ecosystem, accounting for a mere 0.3% of links.
Weekly Digest, Issue #176, 6 June 2026
In the media ecosystem, major players must decide whether to extract resources or invest in diversity and complexity. Collective action is not about the strong helping the weak, but about preserving the foundation on which all depend.