About NewsTank Academic: vision and mission

Higher education and research are at the heart of the knowledge economy.

Understanding the challenges, strategies and evolution of Europe's education and research systems is the foundation of our mission.

News Tank Academic: who we are

News Tank Academic is a media outlet published since May 2024 by the French specialist news agency News Tank Education & Recherche, which has been in existence since 2014.

The team comprises more than 15 permanent journalists who monitor news from universities, colleges, research organizations, funding agencies, accreditation systems and public authorities.

We are present in France, Brussels, Berlin and London.

We offer :

  • a “Policy” information area: dedicated to European governance in higher education, research and innovation;
  • an “Institutions” information area: we cover the strategies and challenges of the main higher education establishments, colleges, funding agencies, research operators, technology transfer agencies, and more.

Our product: a unique way of developing and disseminating information

News Tank's motto is "Make informed decisions". It's all about reinventing the concept of the news agency in this age of data, social networks and the explosion of high-quality information on the web.

Hence the desire to return to the foundations of journalism, with factual, neutral and responsive information, enriched by data produced by all the journalists using a tool integrated into the publication software.

Expert analysis, directories of people and organisations, folders for storing articles, choice of scope and reception time for the Quotidien or Hebdo, keyword alerts... Our subscribers have all the tools they need to personalise their experience.

Our role: connecting stakeholders by informing them

News Tank's motto is "Make informed decisions".

We are addressing management teams.

It is about reinventing the concept of a press agency in the era of data, fake news on social networks and free information of often poor quality on the web.

Hence the desire to return to the basics of journalism, with factual, neutral and reactive information, enriched by data and supplemented by analyses by experts and managers.

Directories of people and organizations, files to store your articles, choice of the scope and time of receipt of the Quotidien or the Hebdo, alerts by keywords... Our subscribers have all the tools necessary to personalize their monitoring.

Our role: connecting stakeholders by informing them

News Tank Academic's mission is to inform all categories of leaders, to shed light on debates and to contribute to the decompartmentalization and development of higher education, research and innovation.

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