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About
Who publishes this, what it covers, and how it works.
The Meridian is an independent news publication, published by one person rather than by a company. There is no parent group, no proprietor and no shareholder with a view on what gets covered. Reading is free, needs no account, and nothing here sits behind a paywall.
Coverage runs across World, Business, Tech, Culture and Opinion, and in practice leans towards national politics, the federal courts and American foreign policy, which is where most of the reporting has gone so far. Opinion is labelled as opinion and kept apart from the reporting; everything outside that section is written to be read as news.
The editorial approach is plain enough to state in a sentence: report what can be established, attribute it, and correct it in the open when it turns out to be wrong. Factual errors are fixed on the story itself rather than quietly deleted, and significant corrections are marked as corrections rather than slipped in. The feed carries headlines and summaries only, never whole articles, so a story stays where it was published instead of being reprinted elsewhere as somebody else’s.
Stories carry the byline of whoever wrote them. Where a piece has no named author it runs under The Meridian, which means the publication stands behind it — a byline here is never invented and never borrowed. Corrections, tips, questions and complaints all reach the same inbox, contact@themeridiannewsdecoded.com, which is read by the person who publishes the site.