Meduza
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Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek mythological figure Medusa) is a Russian and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media.
Key facts
- Newspaper.name
- Meduza
- Newspaper.logo
- Meduza logo.svg
- Newspaper.type
- News website
- Newspaper.owners
- Galina Timchenko
- Newspaper.founder
- Galina Timchenko, Ivan Kolpakov, Ilya Krasilshchik
- Newspaper.publisher
- Galina Timchenko (since 2019)
- Newspaper.general_manager
- Galina Timchenko
- Newspaper.chief_editor
- Ivan Kolpakov
- Newspaper.managing_editor
- Kevin Rothrock
- Newspaper.news_editor
- Eilish Hart
- Newspaper.language
- RussianEnglish
- Newspaper.headquarters
- Riga, Latvia
- Newspaper.website
- Russian: English:
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Russian foreign agent law
- Country
- Latvia
- Founded by
- Galina Timchenko
- Headquarters
- Riga
- Publisher
- Galina Timchenko
- Main subject
- news
- Creator
- Galina Timchenko
- Platform
- iOS
- Official website
- meduza.io/en
- Image
- Meduza screenshot Valday.jpg
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- language of work or name
- Russian
- inception
- 2014-10-20
- topic's main category
- Category:Meduza
- social media followers
- 832000
- Commons category
- Meduza
- Alexa rank
- 2417
- web feed URL
- meduza.io/rss2/all
- distributed by
- Q368215
- operating system
- Android
- software version identifier
- 1.1.14
- data size
- 35
- privacy policy URL
- meduza.io/feature/2018/05/22/kak-my-obrabatyvaem-vashi-personalnye-dannye-kotorye-hranyatsya-na-meduze
- different from
- Meduza
- official donation page URL
- support.meduza.io/en
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Encyclopedic overview
10 sectionsContents
- History
- Funding
- Structure
- Audience
- Censorship
- Criticism
- Awards
- See also
- References
- External links
Meduza (Russian: Медуза, named after the Greek mythological figure Medusa) is a Russian and English-language independent news website, headquartered in Riga, Latvia. It was founded in 2014 by a group of former employees of the then-independent Lenta.ru news website. Free mobile applications for iOS, Windows Phone, and Android became the basis of the media.
== History == In 2014, Galina Timchenko was fired from her job as chief editor at Lenta.ru by oligarch Alexander Mamut, a supporter of Vladimir Putin, after she had interviewed Right Sector leader Dmytro Yarosh. She launched the new webpage Meduza on 25 October 2014. Several former journalists of Lenta.ru joined the new online site.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Meduza” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.