A journal, a workshop, and a partner
The work
- We publish. Economics, finance and impact — turned into stories you actually finish.
- We teach. Through our Instagram and a real feedback system, we help writers get sharper, draft by draft.
- We partner. We do primary work with NGOs, writing features that raise awareness for the causes they carry.
The honesty
- Student-run, and visibly so — that's the point, not the disclaimer.
- No invented readership and no borrowed institutional gravitas.
- Every stat sourced; every claim we'd defend to a teacher.
- No AI-slop “About Us” paragraph — you're reading the real one.
The story we kept not finding
Financial writing tends to arrive in two flavours: too technical to enter, or too shallow to trust. We started The Meridian because we wanted the thing in between — writing that respects a sixteen-year-old's intelligence without assuming they already speak the language of yield curves and fiscal multipliers.
But we quickly learned that publishing good stories isn't enough on its own. Plenty of people have something worth saying and just haven't been taught how to say it clearly — so we started teaching, through our Instagram and by editing writers properly instead of just accepting or rejecting them. And plenty of organisations doing real work on the ground have no one to tell their story — so we sit down with NGOs and help them turn their work into features that actually move people.
We're not pretending to be more than we are. We're students, learning in public, doing the work carefully. The ambition is small and stubborn: make the money legible, help more people write it well, and point that attention at causes that deserve it.