Daily Maverick
Daily Maverick is a South African online news and investigative journalism publication founded in 2009. It is known for its Scorpio investigative unit and operates on a free-to-read, reader-supported membership model.
Daily Maverick at a glance
- Country
- South Africa
- Region
- Southern Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Founded
- 2009
- Published from
- Johannesburg
- Website
- dailymaverick.co.za ↗
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How Crosswire groups Daily Maverick
Crosswire groups Daily Maverick as Centrist for comparisons within South Africa's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In South Africa, Mail & Guardian is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open Daily Maverick beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Daily Maverick sits in South Africa's press
Daily Maverick was founded in 2009 and is published from Johannesburg. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in South Africa and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, South Africa ranks first of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 64 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Daily Maverick outside South Africa, starting with Southern Africa, are Mwebantu (Zambia), New Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe), Premium Times (Nigeria) and Pulse Ghana (Ghana). Opening one of them beside Daily Maverick is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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