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Kenya's budget fight, told from the chamber floor — not the press release.
Our Nairobi stringer spent ten days inside the coalition talks. The leaked draft shows a $410M line item no international wire reported.
In Bolivia's lithium salt flats, a 41-hour sprint to file what no global desk will.
A three-person Media68 team drove fourteen hours across the Salar de Uyuni this week to confirm — on the record, with a primary-source dossier — that a state-owned extraction contract was quietly amended to bypass Andean community consent. It is the kind of story local outlets cannot risk and international desks skip. It is exactly why we exist.
The 68-country network · live stringer roster
Five desks · One conversation
What you'll read this week.
Politics, climate, culture, conflict, and science — reported on the ground by stringers who live where the story is.
The Mekong towns already relocating — five years ahead of the IPCC timeline.
Filed from Kratie and Stung Trang. Saltwater intrusion has crossed the 2030 projection line.
Lagos' alté scene isn't post-genre. It's pre-politics.
A long read on the clubs, the streaming numbers, and the curators refusing to translate for Western tastemakers.
Inside the Karabakh corridor's last civilian convoy.
Three days with the Lachin families who refused to leave. Eyewitness video, mapped.
Buenos Aires' dengue drone grid — and the algorithm that beat the outbreak.
Open-source, and shipping to Manila next month. We got the GitHub repo.
The network · 140+ contracted stringers
Built on reporters in the field, not a centralized desk in Berlin.
A snapshot of the regional desks publishing this week. Each byline is a person on contract — paid per piece, named in full, accountable to the readers in their country.
East Africa · Nairobi
Files in English & Swahili
Wanjiru Mwangi
Covers parliament, the East African Court of Justice, and the Lake Victoria climate beat. 14 pieces for Media68 since 2023.
South Asia · Delhi
Files in English & Bengali
Priya Sengupta
Covers Indian state politics, Bangladesh garment labor, and the Nepal borderlands. A former Reuters stringer.
Southern Europe · Athens
Files in English & Greek
Dimitris Karras
Reports on migration corridors, Greek state surveillance, and the Cyprus buffer zone. Ex-EFE.
South America · São Paulo
Files in English & Portuguese
Lúcia Ferreyra
Science, public health, and the Amazon. Embedded with Fiocruz since 2022. Former Al Jazeera digital.
140+ contracted stringers
22 editorial board
41 hrs average ship time
4,180 pieces published in 2024
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