News you can check

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The Guardian

Guardian Media Group

Owned by a trust rather than a proprietor, which is unusual and structural rather than rhetorical. It publishes its corrections prominently and links to primary documents more than most.

FT

Financial Times

Nikkei

Expensive and worth it if you need to understand why a number moved. The reporting is aimed at people who will be held to it.

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The Economist

The Economist Group

Argues openly from a position rather than pretending not to have one, which makes it easier to read critically than outlets that hide the premise.

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The New York Times

NYT

The largest newsroom and the widest investigative reach, alongside a separate opinion operation worth keeping distinct from the reporting when you read it.

TW

The Washington Post

Nash Holdings

Strong on US institutions and accountability reporting. Ownership changed hands recently enough that watching what happens to the newsroom is itself worth following.

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NPR

NPR

Public radio, funded by a mix of members and sponsors, which shows in how much of it is explainer rather than headline. Good at context, slower on breaking.

AJ

Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera Media Network

Covers regions the English-language outlets treat as a paragraph, with correspondents who live there. State-funded, which is a fact to hold alongside the reporting.

DW

Deutsche Welle

German federal government

German public broadcaster in English and several other languages, useful for a European read that is not British or American.

LM

Le Monde

Groupe Le Monde

The French paper of record. Its editorial independence is protected by a shareholder structure set up specifically to protect it, which is unusual enough to note.

EP

El País

PRISA

The Spanish-language reference for Spain and much of Latin America, with an English edition that covers the region more thinly than the original.

NA

Nikkei Asia

Nikkei

The most useful English-language feed for East and Southeast Asian business and politics, written from the region rather than about it.

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Bloomberg

Bloomberg L.P.

Terminal-grade financial reporting with the data to back it. Expensive, and the free tier is mostly a shop window for the paid one.

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The Wall Street Journal

News Corp

Strong business and markets coverage, with an editorial page that is clearly a separate product from the reporting. Worth the subscription for the former.

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ProPublica

ProPublica

Nonprofit investigative journalism with the datasets published alongside the stories, so you can check the work rather than take it on faith.

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Bellingcat

Bellingcat

Open-source investigation where the method is on the page: here is the image, here is the building, here is how we dated it. The most teachable newsroom there is.

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Nature news

Springer Nature

Science news written by people who can read the paper, and the source of the “what the study actually said” that most coverage skips.

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Ars Technica

Condé Nast

Technology reporting that assumes the reader can follow a technical explanation, which is rarer than it should be.