Meridian 12E

The invisable line that links Gothenburg

to continetnal Europe and Africa

  • Gothenburg

    Our base. The biggest port in Scandinavia, the city was built 400 years ago by foreign merchants and has ever since maintained an open approach to new ideas, people and products connecting Sweden to the world. We are proud to call Gothenburg our home and we want to maintain the tradition of it being a place where new journalistic ideas and stories arrive to then continue their journey into the rest of Scandinavia.

    Photo: Jonas Jacobsson /Unsplash

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    Europe

    The rest of Europe is oftened referred to Sweden as ‘kontinenten’ - the continet in a similar way to how the UK does. Though big Scandinavian media houses all have correspondents in Europe it is often Brussles based and areas in southern or eastern Europe are both more distant geographically and less covered in the media.

    .Photo: Vytenis Malisauskas / Unsplash

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  • city in Africa

    Africa

    Africa is the world's second largest and second-most populous continent. Despite it being very close to us geographically we rarely have space for it in our news coverage. When we do it is often to talk about natural or social disasters, wars, famine and emergencies. These are important topics to cover and not enough spotlight has been put there but there is also lots more such as music, innovation, progress that struggles even more to make the headlines over here.

    Photo: Nairobi, Kenya by Amani Nation /Unsplash

We are hosting an event, on June 4th, about African news in European media.

This project is still ‘work in progress’ but in a nutshell we hope to build a better understanding on why editorial choices leave such a small space to stories from southern Europe and Africa.

We hope that by following the Meridian, an imaginary line that crosses our city, we can connect and explore other realities in continental Europe and Africa with the goal of taking those stories into our media here in Scandinavia.

We aim to build a better understanding on why editorial choices leave such a small space to stories from southern Europe and Africa. Our goal is to explore if there is any way that we can facilitate a more diverse selection of stories and convey them to a Northern European audience in an engaging way. We hope to update you soon on the progress. Sign up to our newsletter to make sure you don’t miss out on anything!

Would you like to collaborate with us on this project? Or do you have any thoughts, ideas or contacts of people and organisations that could help us develop this project further? Please get in touch! gothenburg@thecirclehubs.org