A desk, not a wire

Meridian reads the public feeds of newsrooms on three continents, writes its own short brief on what they reported, and sends you to their article for the full account.

What this site does

Every item here begins as a published report by another newsroom. Meridian writes a fresh brief on it — a headline, a standfirst, three things to know and two short paragraphs — and puts the original one click away. The brief is written to be read in forty seconds. The reporting it points to is where the detail, the quotations and the photography live.

Nothing on this site is original reporting. Meridian employs no correspondents and witnesses no events. It is an editing layer over other people’s journalism, and it says so on every page.

What it does not do

• It does not copy article text. Briefs are written from scratch and checked against the source for reused phrasing before they publish.
• It does not republish photography. Pictures stay with the newsroom that paid for them.
• It does not add facts. Where a report is too thin to summarize honestly, the item stays a headline and a link.
• It does not rank by outrage. Items are ordered by time, not by what provokes a click.

Who runs it

Meridian is published by [YOUR COMPANY OR YOUR NAME], based in [CITY, COUNTRY]. Editorial questions, corrections and removal requests go to [EDITOR@YOURDOMAIN.COM] and are answered by a person.