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Last checked 3/10/2024

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National

  • News Bias Chart indicates what bias a news source has. Of course, all generalizations are false.
  • Chart of News Source Bias and Reliability4 outta 5 as reported by LifeHacker, gives background for the bias chart in the link above.
  • Media Bias Factcheck5 stars has a database of over 2000 news sources that they rate according to political bias. News stories of the day are conviently listed on their home page (along with the source).
  • FactCheck.org5 stars is sponsored by The Annenberg Public Policy Center. It fact checks various news stories and rumors.
  • AllSides5 stars reports news stories but gives links to the story as reported by the politically left, right, and center. Interesting comparison of the spins that are put on the story.
  • Best Fact Checking Sites4 outta 5 as reported by MakeUseOf.
  • RumorGuard is sponsored by the News Literacy Project and attempts to assist you in figuring out if your being informed or influenced. The RumorGuard site debunks photo-shopped and faked videos as well as other altered news.
  • New York Times4 outta 5
  • Washington Post4 outta 5 Good news coverage.
  • NPR - National Public Radio News5 stars has a lot of audio and video clips.
  • NPR Newshour4 outta 5 has videos of all of the trending US news stories.
  • BBC when you really want to know what the world's thinking.
  • C-Span has a well balanced news presentation. Lots of live political coverage.
  • AP News - the Associated Press is a source for many other news outlets.
  • Reuters5 stars is a great general news site. Very good finance and business sections.
  • Reuters Finance News - finance and business news.
  • The Atlantic news and opinion that is well written.
  • The Guardian is a UK publication that has a US section.
  • The Boston Globe shows you what news is like from the Boston point of view.
  • Bloomberg has a well balanced news presentation.
  • 1stHeadlines5 stars has headline stories from 60 newspapers from around the world. In addition, they list the names of newspapers in case you want to visit a specific site. They also list the topics and names in the news with the number of times that the topic or name was cited.
  • ABC News
  • ABC US News
  • CBS News
  • NBC News
  • CNN News is easier to browse than Fox and has a list of categories of news that is useful. Coverage leans to the political left.
  • Newsweek
  • The Economist - business news.
  • Bloomberg Businessweek - business news.
  • Forbes - business news.
  • StatNews - medical news.
  • The Conversation has in-depth articles written and reviewed by credentialed writers. News and opinion stories are often covered from multiple points of view by different writers.
  • Quartz has opinion pieces that are thought-provoking.
  • The Huffington Post
  • US News
  • Allsides4 outta 5 reports the same news story from various news sources which are categorized by their political bias.
  • Politifact checks political claims and tries to show to what degree they are true or false.
  • Is Snopes Reliable reviews the evidence and rumors that Snopes, which fact checks news and viral stories, is unduly biased. The article concludes that it is not but is worth reading.
  • Snopes originally started out checking viral stories such as BigFoot in Manhattan but has more recently been reviewing political reports. Their reviews always include links to their sources so you can follow the evidence if you want.
  • FactCheck.org checks political claims and tries to show to what degree they are true or false.
  • MSNBC has a slick magazine feel.
  • Associated Press
  • USA Today Pretty much mirrors the hard copy form.
  • Wall Street Journal Great coverage but you need to sign in with an account.
  • LA Weekly
  • Los Angeles Times
  • Orlando Sentinel
  • Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  • Chicago Tribune
  • Village Voice
  • News Now grabs news off the net. It categorizes stories by subject and by how old the news is.
  • Google News has a nice aggregation of news.
  • Yahoo Daily News
  • Pluto TV has a lot of news and entertainment shows available for free through your browser.
  • Today's Front Pages is a collection of current front pages from about 60 newspapers from all over the world. Interesting points of view.
  • Science Daily
  • Five Sites That Give Two Sides of the News Story - from the MakeUseOf folks.
  • United States Newspaper Listing - find just about any newspaper in the United States.
  • Drudge Report - news from a slightly different point of view.
  • Top News Sites You Can Trust according to the MakeUseOf folks.
  • UpWorthy is full of news stories that folks like to pass on to one another either because they are politically hot, cute, uplifting, touching, etc.
Tech

World

  • The Paperboy has news from international newspapers.
  • Refdesk News5 stars has links to newspaper sites around the world, news services, reference sites, weather sites, stock quotes, weird news, etc. Includes links to newspapers and magazine sites categorized by country, by columnist, by type of news, etc.
  • The Guardian is a UK publication.
  • Sky News is a UK Internet broadcast. News is mostly UK and US. Includes some live broadcoasts.
  • France24 is a French Internet news broadcast and includes some stories in English, Arabic, and Spanish.
Sports

Miscellaneous

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