News avoidance is here to stay. But that doesn’t mean people have gotten less curious. It’s a great moment for journalists to try new things, to dream big and experiment with creative formats and ...
Florence Martin-Kessler
Florence Martin-Kessler is the founder and CEO of Live Magazine, a journalism show in 28 cities - including 21 in Europe, 5 Africa and 2 in the Middle East - and labelled Press Innovation of the Year by the 2015 Assises Internationales du Journalisme. Since its creation 10 years ago, Live Magazine has reached an audience of 150 000 and produced special editions with the Financial Times, Le Monde, Le Temps and Les Echos as well as book publishers and major festivals such as les Rencontres de la Photographie d’Arles. Live Magazine's government-sponsored outreach and media literacy program trains teachers and vocational-schools students all over France (10 000 in total, since the creation of the “Academie”). She was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard in 2010-11 and sits on the board of the CFJ (French Journalism School). In 2019, she was listed among the Fifty who make Paris by the local newspaper Le Parisien. In 2023, she was awarded the title of Chevalière de l'ordre des Arts et des Lettres for services to journalism in France.
Events IJF 2025
Art and journalism: why fiction may be the missing component to telling the truth
Journalism is constantly looking for new ways of storytelling, experimenting with technology. At the same time, artists too are trying to find new ways to attract an audience. And as different narrati...
Innovations in storytelling: lessons from the inventor of the live magazine format
Across North America and Europe huge audiences sit – often in national theaters – and experience journalism: reported stories augmented with audio, video and live music and put together in a new g...
Since its beginnings in November 2018, the leaderless, anti-establishment and Facebook-born “Gilets Jaunes” movement has repeatedly assaulted the media, both verbally and physically, including by ...
Across Europe, huge audience sit – often in national theaters – and experience journalism: reported stories augmented with audio, video and live music and put together in a new genre you could cal...
When journalism goes live and on stage: can live events help build loyalty, trust - and the business?
Even though journalism remains the core product of most news media - and certainly of all the media featured on this panel - a growing number of publishers are also producing live events. These can va...
Journalism organisations have run many experiments aimed at strengthening engagement, expertise, and revenue – holding debates, opening cultural venues, running cafes, and sponsoring hackathons. But...
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