The site Media Bias/Fact Check rates news media for their factual reporting and political bias. There are thousands of sites rated, but I thought it would be interesting to give a concise summary of the main English-language news websites and TV channels. I am going to classify them by country.
United Kingdom
In 2016, in my article Who reads which newspaper in Britain? I explained the political bias and social class associated with the major British newspapers.
United States
Canada
Australia
News in English from non-English-speaking countries
United Kingdom
In 2016, in my article Who reads which newspaper in Britain? I explained the political bias and social class associated with the major British newspapers.
News media | Factual reporting | Political bias |
BBC News | High | Left-center |
Daily Express | Mixed | Right |
Daily Mail | Low | Right |
Daily Mirror | Mixed | Left-center |
Daily Star | Mixed | Right-center |
Daily Telegraph | Mixed | Right |
London Evening Standard | High | Right-center |
Financial Times | High | Least biased |
Sky News | High | Least biased |
The Economist | High | Least biased |
The Guardian | Mixed | Left-center |
The Independent | Mixed | Left-center |
The Sun | Mixed | Right |
The Times | High | Right-center |
United States
News media | Factual reporting | Political bias |
ABC | High | Left-center |
Associated Press | Very high | Least biased |
CBS | High | Left-center |
CNN | Mixed | Left |
Fox News | Mixed | Right |
The Huffington Post | Mixed | Left |
The Los Angeles Times | High | Left-center |
New York Post | Mixed | Right-center |
The New York Times | High | Left-center |
NBC News | High | Left-center |
Newsweek | Mixed | Left |
NPR | Very high | Left-center |
Politico | High | Least biased |
Reuters | Very high | Least biased |
Time Magazine | High | Left-center |
USA Today | High | Left-center |
Washington Post | High | Left-center |
Yahoo News | High | Left-center |
Canada
News media | Factual reporting | Political bias |
CBS | High | Left-center |
CTV | High | Least biased |
Financial Post | Mostly factual | Right-center |
The Globe and Mail | High | Right-center |
Global News | High | Left-center |
National Post | High | Right-center |
Toronto Star | High | Left-center |
Toronto Sun | Mostly factual | Right |
Australia
News media | Factual reporting | Political bias |
9 News | High | Right-center |
ABC | High | Left-center |
The Age | High | Left-center |
The Australian | Mixed | Right-center |
Daily Telegraph | Mixed | Right |
The Herald Sun | Mostly factual | Right-center |
News.com.au | Mostly factual | Right-center |
The Sydney Morning Herald | High | Left-center |
News in English from non-English-speaking countries
News media | Country | Factual reporting | Political bias |
Al Jazeera | Qatar | Mixed | Left-center |
ANSA | Italy | High | Least biased |
Asahi Shimbun | Japan | High | Left-center |
CCTV International | China | Mixed | Left-center |
Deutsche Welle (DW News) | Germany | High | Left-center |
El Pais | Spain | High | Left-center |
Euronews | France | High | Least biased |
EU Observer | Belgium | High | Left-center |
France 24 | France | High | Least biased |
Japan Times | Japan | High | Least biased |
Japan Today | Japan | High | Left-center |
The Local | Sweden | High | Left-center |
Mainichi Shimbun | Japan | High | Left-center |
NHK World | Japan | High | Left-center |
Russia Today (RT News) | Russia | Very low | Right-center |
Spiegel Online | Germany | High | Left-center |
South China Morning Post | China | Mixed | Left-center |
Xinhua News | China | Mixed | Left-center |
Yomiuri Shimbun | Japan | High | Right-center |
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