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We Believe in the Power of Slow Journalism
Meridian was founded on a simple belief: that the world needs more writing that takes its time — that thinks carefully, reports deeply, and trusts readers to handle complexity.
Meridian was founded on a simple belief: that the world needs more writing that takes its time — that thinks carefully, reports deeply, and trusts readers to handle complexity.
Meridian was founded in 2014 by a group of journalists and essayists who felt that something important was being lost in the acceleration of digital media: the long sentence, the considered opinion, the piece of writing that stayed with you for days.
Today, we publish essays, features, and reported journalism across culture, science, philosophy, economics, arts, and world affairs. We have no investors, no sponsored content, and no algorithm determining what you read. We have only our readers — 248,000 of them — and our writers.
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