Type of site
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News aggregator Online newspaper |
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Available in |
Russian English |
Headquarters | Riga, Latvia |
Editor | Ivan Kolpakov |
Slogan(s) | The news returns also The real Russia, today |
Website | Russian: meduza.io English: meduza.io/en/articles |
Alexa rank |
2,455 (October 2016[update]) |
Commercial | Yes |
Registration | No |
Launched | October 20, 2014 |
Current status | Active |
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Meduza is a Riga-based online newspaper and news aggregator in the Russian language, headed by Galina Timchenko, the former editor-in-chief of Russian news website Lenta.ru.
Meduza is an aggregator of news and texts in Russian, to be selected in manual mode, unlike the automatic rankings of Yandex News. The main criterion for the published content should be the relevance and reliability of the information, not the status of the source. Also, Meduza will create its own materials. The site includes 5 main topics, no sections and columns. One of the formats of the publication will be the analysis of complex issues using cards, similar to the American project vox.com. The basis of the media will be free mobile app for iOS, Android and Windows Phone.
In February 2015, the website also launched a version in the English language. In January 2016, founder and CEO Galina Timchenko handed over the role of chief editor to her deputy Ivan Kolpakov.
Meduza is run by a team of around 20 journalists who resigned from their jobs at Lenta.ru following Galina Timchenko’s unexpected removal from her post by the website’s owner and Vladimir Putin ally, the oligarch Alexander Mamut. There are no Latvian journalists in the project.
Timchenko told Forbes that the decision to base Meduza in Latvia was made since "right now, establishing an independent Russian language publishing house in Latvia is possible, while in Russia it is not." Russian businessman and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky and telecommunications magnate Boris Zimin had been considered as passive investors; however, they parted ways “for strategic and operational reasons”.