“If content from old media cannot compete with a 22-year old YouTuber, that’s a problem,” says Mediati’s Content Strategist Simon Park.
With a geographical focus on West France, Ouest Médialab brings together a variety of actors around digital innovation projects in the regions Pays de la Loire and Bretagne.
It’s important to have the space, the resources and the time to experiment and learn on a daily basis in the newsroom. “We don’t want the Maker Lab to be the only place where experimentation and learning take place”, says Chani Guyot.
Five questions to Clemens Prerovsky (CDO) about ongoing projects, lessons learned and best practices at the APA-medialab.
In the lab, FranceTV tests new tools and learns how to use them before introducing them to the newsroom. A way to spread the digital culture among journalists, who tend to be conservative and not always open to new ways of working.
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Media organisations, academics and public institutions work together on experimental innovation and research at Lindholmen Science Park.
The second edition of GAMI’s Media Lab Days brought together Innovation Labs from print media, broadcast organisations, universities and the Bavarian filmcenter, hosted by Media Lab Bayern in Munich.
“But working with start-ups can never replace doing innovation within your own company; you need both,” says Meinolf Ellers (dpa).
Innovation is not about impressing people with the latest technologies. For the EPFL+ECAL Lab, an innovation is successful if a user forgets about the technology and instead focuses on the content.