Meduza
Meduza is an independent Russian-language news outlet founded in 2014 by former Lenta.ru journalists and based in Riga, Latvia. It covers Russian politics and society critically, is generally characterized as liberal and left-of-center, and has been blocked in Russia and designated an 'undesirable organization' by Russian authorities, continuing to publish for readers inside and outside the country.
Meduza at a glance
- Country
- Russia
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Founded
- 2014
- Published from
- Riga, Latvia
- Website
- meduza.io ↗
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How Crosswire groups Meduza
Crosswire groups Meduza as Left-leaning for comparisons within Russia's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Russia, Kommersant and Moskovsky Komsomolets are listed as Centrist, while RT and TASS are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open Meduza beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Meduza sits in Russia's press
Meduza was founded in 2014 and is published from Riga, Latvia. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Russia and the only digital-native outlet tracked there. By outlets tracked, Russia ranks 25th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 31 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Meduza outside Russia, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are Ukrainska Pravda (Ukraine), Onliner (Belarus), NewsMaker (Moldova) and The Independent (United Kingdom). Opening one of them beside Meduza is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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