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World Desk · No-Ad Edition · Q2 2025
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The World Desk · An Atlas of Reporting

Sixty-eight countries, one conversation.

This is the working map of Media68 — every country a contracted stringer, every region a desk, every story filed from a place cable-news desks skip. Below: the full directory, grouped by continent, with the reporters on the ground and what they're shipping this week.

140+ stringers · 22-person editorial board · translated weekly into English, Spanish, Arabic, French

A reporter's desk at the Berlin newsroom, the morning a correspondent file is due.
Berlin newsroom, Karl-Liebknecht-Straße 12. The 41-hour ship clock starts when a stringer hits send.
The Directory

Every tile is a working stringer on contract.

Sixty-eight countries, grouped into six regions. Each tile links to that country's recent stories and the regional desk that edits them. The directory is the network — there is no row in this atlas without a name, a phone, and a filing history behind it.

Stringer on contract Op-ed stringer (weekly column) Newly added in 2025

Africa 14 countries

Americas 12 countries

Asia 18 countries

Europe 14 countries

Middle East & North Africa 6 countries

Oceania & Pacific 4 countries

From the Region · This Week

Two beats from opposite hemispheres.

Community organizers in a coastal West African town meet with a Media68 stringer to discuss a fish-processing dispute.
From West Africa

The fish-processing vote nobody in Brussels noticed.

Stringer byline: Ibrahim Diallo, reporting from Saint-Louis, Senegal. Edited by the Lagos desk.

A tariff shift on canned tuna, passed in a committee room with two interpreters and no press corps, will redraw the map of who eats what along the Senegalese coast for the next decade. Local stringer Ibrahim Diallo has the six-page primary dossier — committee minutes, ministry letters, and the cooperative's own rebuttal.

  • Filed Tuesday 09:14 WAT
  • Published Tuesday 18:02 WAT — 41-hour ship clock beat
  • Translated from French for the English edition
Read the dispatch Download the primary-source dossier (PDF)
A vendor in central Tbilisi, Georgia, photographed during reporting on winter energy policy.
From the South Caucasus

Who actually paid for the blackout.

Stringer byline: Nino Kandelaki, reporting from Tbilisi, Georgia. Edited by the Warsaw desk.

A 36-hour winter power outage shut down the heating grid across three South Caucasus capitals. Cable-news desks ran the weather angle; Nino Kandelaki ran the procurement angle — the four vendors, the two shell companies, and the municipal letter that quietly answers the question nobody asked.

  • Filed Thursday 06:48 GET
  • Translated into English, Spanish, and Arabic for the weekly editions
  • Co-published in the Le Monde Diplomatique English syndication slot
Read the dispatch Download the primary-source dossier (PDF)
From the field to your inbox

How a stringer's file becomes a Media68 story.

Four steps, no jargon. The 41-hour ship time — the time between a stringer hitting send in country X and the translated, dossier-backed story landing in a reader's inbox — is a figure we publish, audit, and stand behind.

  1. 01

    Filed on the ground

    A contracted stringer files from the country, with primary documents, recorded interviews, and a verified byline. The clock starts the moment the file hits the desk inbox.

  2. 02

    Edited by a regional desk

    One of our six regional desks — Lagos, Warsaw, Berlin, Mexico City, New Delhi, Beirut — takes the file, fact-checks it against the dossier, and writes the contextual bridge Anglosphere readers need.

  3. 03

    Translated, dossier attached

    The story is translated into the weekly edition languages — English, Spanish, Arabic, French — and the primary-source dossier is attached as a downloadable PDF.

  4. 04

    Shipped to readers

    Published, sent to paying members first, and indexed into the regional country tile it came from. Median ship time across 2024: 41 hours, verified by the Reuters Institute editorial-speed benchmark.

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