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News & Media

Links to general news outlets, aggregators, and wire services that cover local, national, international, and business news, along with services that analyze the media and media bias. (Topic-specific news sources are listed on their topic pages; this section is mainly for ‘general’ news.)

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News aggregators gather information from other news sources and present it together in a single place. Some are automated, some are curated by editors, and some can be customized to your preferences.

  • AllSides – Balanced News
    News aggregator intended to present “balanced news and perspectives” from left, right, and center.
  • Bing News
    News aggregator by Microsoft.
  • Google News
    News aggregator by Google.
  • Ground News
    Service that “makes it easy to compare news sources [and] read between the lines of media bias.”
  • Straight Arrow News (SAN)
    An outlet “on a mission to raise the bar on journalism in a time of media bias and mistrust.”
  • Yahoo News
    News aggregator by Yahoo.

Links to news websites that focus primarily on business, finance, and economic matters. Most of them also cover ‘general’ news, but they do so from a more business-oriented perspective.

Links to generally-trustworthy international news outlets, which can provide different perspectives from those you’ll find in U.S. outlets. They are also useful for monitoring stories in different parts of the world.

Links to news outlets located in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan area that cover local news events, sometimes with additional coverage of national and international news, especially when it has a ‘local angle.’

Links to U.S.-based news outlets with a national footprint and generally-reliable coverage of what’s happening in the United States and around the world. These are useful for a bigger picture of what’s going on.

  • ABC News
    News division of the American Broadcasting Company (ABC).
  • Axios
    Axios provides “smarter, more efficient coverage of the topics shaping the fast-changing world.”
  • CBS News
    News division of CBS Broadcasting Inc.
  • NBC News
    News division of the NBCUniversal Media Group.
  • NewsNation
    NewsNation aims to be a “source for engaging and unbiased news.”
  • Newsweek
    News magazine “committed to journalism that’s factual and fair.”
  • NPR (National Public Radio)
    News outlet intended to “create a more informed public.”
  • States Newsroom – News From the States
    An outlet that “brings expert, on-the-ground reporting from all 50 states together in one place.”
  • The Center Square – National
    Offers “high-quality statehouse and statewide news across the United States.”
  • Wall Street Journal
    News and business publication from New York, founded in 1889.

Research

Websites that analyze news outlets and reporting, including ratings of bias, reliability, and other factors.

Links to news outlets that are useful but unreliable. An outlet may be listed here if it exhibits extreme political bias, government control, or an aggressive emphasis on speed over accuracy, but may be worth monitoring in certain circumstances.

  • Al Jazeera (Qatar)
    Qatari government-funded news outlet; antisemitic and Islamist.
  • CNN
    American 24-hour news and opinion network.
  • Daily Mail (U.K.)
    British tabloid website; fast reporting, but not always accurate.
  • Fox News
    American 24-hour news and opinion network.
  • MS NOW
    American 24-hour opinion and propaganda network (formerly MSNBC).
  • TASS (Russia)
    Russian government-owned wire service.
  • Xinhua (China)
    Chinese government-owned wire service.

Links to the three global wire services, newswires, or news agencies. These services intend to provide reliable coverage of major news directly to the public and to their member news outlets.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.