A living atlas of positive news
Meridia aggregates good news from hundreds of sources worldwide, processes each story with AI, and places it on an interactive map — so you can see the good happening everywhere.
Mission
News feeds are dominated by conflict, crisis, and catastrophe — not because the world is only bad, but because negativity drives engagement. Meridia exists to rebalance the picture. We surface the positive stories that traditional media under-reports: scientific breakthroughs, environmental victories, community kindness, and human rights milestones.
Every story is placed on a map because good news happens somewhere. Seeing it geographically reveals patterns invisible in a traditional feed: which regions lead in conservation, where medical breakthroughs cluster, how community initiatives spread across borders.
How it works
Ingest
We monitor hundreds of RSS feeds, news APIs, and curated sources for positive stories in any language.
AI Analysis
Each article is processed by AI to determine sentiment, category, geographic location, and geometry type (point, zone, or journey).
Geocode
Locations are resolved to coordinates. Area stories become highlighted zones. Cross-border stories become journey arcs.
Map
Published stories appear on the interactive map as color-coded markers, zones, or arcs — filterable by category, time, and region.
Editorial standards & AI transparency
Meridia is an AI-assisted publication. Every story is sourced from established outlets, news agencies, and primary research, then summarised and written by AI under editorial rules we set and maintain. We are transparent about this: article digests and research write-ups are machine-generated, not authored by an individual journalist.
Our standards are built into the pipeline. We only surface stories that score as genuinely positive, we keep the original source linked on every article so you can verify the claim, and we instruct the model never to invent numbers, quotes, or locations — every figure must trace back to the source. Stories that can't be grounded in a real, verifiable source are not published.
Corrections and source concerns are welcome at hello@meridia.news. When a source is updated or retracted, we update or remove the corresponding story.
Three ways to see a story
Point
A single location — a city, a lab, a park. Most stories are points.
Zone
An area — a national park restored, a reef recovering, a region going renewable.
Journey
Origin to destination — wildlife migration, aid delivery, cultural exchange.
11 Categories
Every story is classified into one of eleven color-coded categories: