Media Guide

Know who owns the news you read
Tier 1 — Daily Analysis
NBC News
USA
🔑 NBCUniversal (Comcast)
Center-left37 analyses
CNN
USA
🔑 Warner Bros. Discovery (Paramount Skydance deal closing October 2026)
Left-center64 analyses
NPR
USA
🔑 Nonprofit — member stations + Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Center-left (perceived)37 analyses
Al Jazeera
Qatar
🔑 Government of Qatar
State-funded37 analyses
MS NOW
USA
🔑 Versant Media Group
Left-leaning
ABC News
USA
🔑 The Walt Disney Company
Center2 analyses
BBC News
UK
🔑 UK Government (License fee)
State-funded67 analyses
Reuters
UK / Global
🔑 Thomson Reuters (Thomson family ~70%)
Wire service22 analyses
AP
USA
🔑 Nonprofit cooperative (member news orgs)
Wire service29 analyses
Fox News
USA
🔑 Murdoch family (Fox Corporation)
Right117 analyses
Tier 2 — 3-4 Times/Week
The Sun
UK
🔑 News UK (News Corp / Murdoch family)
Right-populist17 analyses
Newsweek
USA
🔑 Newsweek Publishing LLC (Dev Pragad & Johnathan Davis)
Mixed / opinion-heavy1 analysis
Daily Mail
UK
🔑 DMGT (Rothermere family)
Right-populist20 analyses
The Mirror
UK
🔑 Reach plc
Left-populist22 analyses
The Guardian
UK
🔑 Scott Trust Limited (no shareholders)
Left-leaning21 analyses
The Wall Street Journal
USA
🔑 News Corp (Murdoch family)
Center-right8 analyses
Washington Post
USA
🔑 Jeff Bezos
Left-center15 analyses
Bloomberg
USA
🔑 Michael Bloomberg / Bloomberg LP
Pro-business23 analyses
CNBC
USA
🔑 Versant Media Group
Pro-business1 analysis
New York Times
USA
🔑 Sulzberger family (NYT Co.)
Liberal16 analyses
Tier 3 — Weekly
RT (Russia Today)
Russia
🔑 Russian Government
State propaganda27 analyses
France 24
France
🔑 France Médias Monde (French state)
State-funded19 analyses
Politico
USA
🔑 Axel Springer (Germany)
Center
Euronews
France / EU
🔑 Alpac Capital (Orbán-linked leadership)
Center18 analyses
New York Post
USA
🔑 News Corp (Murdoch family)
Right
USA Today
USA
🔑 USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett)
Center
CGTN
China
🔑 Chinese Communist Party (via China Media Group)
State propaganda17 analyses