How we sort sources

Crosswire News shows each story three ways: from left-leaning outlets, right-leaning outlets, and alternative or independent outlets. Here is how an outlet ends up in each group.

The three groups

• Left Outlets whose coverage and opinion pages lean progressive or Democratic, judged by their editorial positions and by independent media-bias ratings.
• Right Outlets whose coverage and opinion pages lean conservative or Republican, judged the same way.
• Alternative Independent and non-aligned outlets: reader-funded and independent newsrooms, libertarian, anti-war and populist voices from either side, wire services, and international outlets. Independents come first; wire services (AP, Reuters) and big mainstream outlets only fill in when no independent has covered a story.

Rules we follow

• Each outlet sits in one group for every story; we don't move outlets around to balance a story.
• When a group hasn't covered a story, we say so. Sometimes we borrow an article from another group to fill the gap, and it is always labeled with its real lean.
• Labels such as "State media", "Disputed accuracy" and "Paywall" appear beside outlets where they apply.
• Free articles are shown before paywalled ones.
• Summaries are written by AI from the articles shown, and say where the sides agree and where they clash. Always check the original articles.

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Every outlet we track