Media Guide
Know who owns the news you read
Tier 1 — Daily Analysis
NPR
USA
🔑 Nonprofit — member stations + Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Center-left (perceived)26 analyses
Fox News
USA
🔑 Murdoch family (Fox Corporation)
Right92 analyses
Al Jazeera
Qatar
🔑 Government of Qatar
State-funded30 analyses
MS NOW
USA
🔑 Versant Media Group
Left-leaning
BBC News
UK
🔑 UK Government (License fee)
State-funded53 analyses
ABC News
USA
🔑 The Walt Disney Company
Center2 analyses
NBC News
USA
🔑 NBCUniversal (Comcast)
Center-left26 analyses
CNN
USA
🔑 Warner Bros. Discovery (Paramount Skydance takeover pending)
Left-center43 analyses
Reuters
UK / Global
🔑 Thomson Reuters (Thomson family ~70%)
Wire service15 analyses
AP
USA
🔑 Nonprofit cooperative (member news orgs)
Wire service20 analyses
Tier 2 — 3-4 Times/Week
The Wall Street Journal
USA
🔑 News Corp (Murdoch family)
Center-right7 analyses
CNBC
USA
🔑 Versant Media Group
Pro-business1 analysis
Newsweek
USA
🔑 Newsweek Publishing LLC (Dev Pragad & Johnathan Davis)
Mixed / opinion-heavy1 analysis
Daily Mail
UK
🔑 DMGT (Rothermere family)
Right-populist8 analyses
New York Times
USA
🔑 Sulzberger family (NYT Co.)
Liberal9 analyses
The Sun
UK
🔑 News UK (News Corp / Murdoch family)
Right-populist7 analyses
The Guardian
UK
🔑 Scott Trust Limited (no shareholders)
Left-leaning19 analyses
The Mirror
UK
🔑 Reach plc
Left-populist17 analyses
Washington Post
USA
🔑 Jeff Bezos
Left-center11 analyses
Bloomberg
USA
🔑 Michael Bloomberg / Bloomberg LP
Pro-business15 analyses
Tier 3 — Weekly
New York Post
USA
🔑 News Corp (Murdoch family)
Right
CGTN
China
🔑 Chinese Communist Party (via China Media Group)
State propaganda7 analyses
RT (Russia Today)
Russia
🔑 Russian Government
State propaganda21 analyses
Euronews
France / EU
🔑 Alpac Capital (Orbán-linked leadership)
Center12 analyses
France 24
France
🔑 France Médias Monde (French state)
State-funded17 analyses
Politico
USA
🔑 Axel Springer (Germany)
Center
USA Today
USA
🔑 USA Today Co. (formerly Gannett)
Center