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MercatorNet

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MercatorNet
URL http://www.mercatornet.com
Slogan A voice for Human Dignity
Commercial? No
Type of site Dignitarian
Owner New Media Foundation Pty Ltd
Created by Michael Cook
Launched 2004

MercatorNet (also known as Mercator) is a magazine which has been online since 2004. Its focus is parenting/family issues, bioethics, religion, philosophy and entertainment. MercatorNet aims to be a voice for human dignity.

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[edit] Name

The name MercatorNet was inspired by Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594) was a great Renaissance cartographer whose work shaped the identity of the modern world. Using the latest reports of new discoveries, he created innovative maps which became known throughout Europe. A creative and skillful craftsman, he invented the map projection which bears his name and coined the term "atlas".

[edit] Editorial Stance

MercatorNet aims at balance and accuracy and avoids supporting political parties. Its chosen tag is "dignitarian".

[edit] Features

  • articles updated weekly
  • MediaWatch of news around the world
  • backgrounders: commentaries written by experts on a range of hot-button issues in the news.

[edit] Contributors

Editor: Michael Cook, a Melbourne journalist who has edited the family magazine Perspective for a number of years and contributes to American and Australian magazine and newspapers as a freelance writer. He also edits an international bioethics newsletter, BioEdge.

Deputy editor: Carolyn Moynihan, the founding editor of Family Edge newsletter and Deputy Editor of MercatorNet. Her special interests are the family, women and, ageing.

MercatorNet also has contributing editors in the US, Canada, Uganda, and Japan.

Amongst regular contributors to MercatorNet are Margaret Somerville, Barbara Kay, Maggie Gallagher, Jennifer Roback Morse, Sheila Liaugminas and Joanna Bogle.

[edit] Support & Funding

New Media Foundation, an Australian company which sponsors innovative projects in the media, is MercatorNet's main backer. Its other project is BioEdge, a bioethics newsletter also edited by Michael Cook. MercatorNet's main financial support is donations from readers and syndication of its articles.

[edit] External links

Some of MercatorNet's articles have been published by some major newspapers in Australia.


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