I try to be choosy about my news, yet also read widely. I make it a habit to routinely consult sources outside the US, and to mix up the types of media ownership to avoid a monolithic class view.
Other habits: try to corroborate stories amongst multiple publications; evaluate the credibility of authors and references; read source material; do my own calculations; consult public data when available; go back further into history to understand the trajectory of preceding events; keep listening for new information on the subject. Adjust my views based on new incoming information, if warranted.
Having worked in media for most of my career, I have a lot of practice evaluating the quality and veracity of reporting. Cross-referencing comes second nature. I’ve studied the media industry as a professional imperative and understand a bit about its ownership structures and its history, both technical and economic. As a political philosophy buff, I’m aware of the great importance of a free press to our democratic republic.
Name | Country | Funding | Year founded | Age | Link |
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The Guardian | UK | Private | 1821 | 200 | https://www.theguardian.com/ |
The Economist | UK | Private | 1843 | 178 | https://www.economist.com/ |
Scientific American | US | Private | 1845 | 176 | https://www.nature.com/ |
Associated Press | US | Nonprofit | 1846 | 175 | https://apnews.com/ |
The New York Times | US | Private | 1851 | 170 | https://www.nytimes.com/ |
Reuters | US | Private | 1851 | 170 | https://www.reuters.com/ |
The Daily Telegraph | UK | Private | 1855 | 166 | https://www.telegraph.co.uk/ |
The Atlantic | US | Private | 1857 | 164 | https://www.theatlantic.com/ |
Nature | US | Private | 1869 | 152 | https://www.nature.com/ |
The Washington Post | US | Private | 1877 | 144 | https://www.washingtonpost.com/ |
LA Times | US | Private | 1881 | 140 | https://www.latimes.com/ |
Financial Times | UK | Private | 1888 | 133 | https://www.ft.com/ |
The New Republic | US | Private | 1914 | 107 | https://newrepublic.com/ |
BBC | UK | Public | 1922 | 99 | https://www.bbc.com/news |
Time | US | Private | 1923 | 98 | https://time.com/ |
The New Yorker | US | Private | 1925 | 96 | https://www.newyorker.com/ |
CBC | Canada | Public | 1936 | 85 | https://www.cbc.ca/news/world |
Spiegel | EU | Private | 1947 | 74 | https://www.spiegel.de/international/ |
Radio Free Europe | EU | Public | 1949 | 72 | https://www.rferl.org/ |
New Scientist | UK | Private | 1956 | 65 | https://www.newscientist.com/ |
Rolling Stone | US | Private | 1967 | 54 | https://www.gregpalast.com/ |
PBS | US | Public | 1969 | 52 | https://www.pbs.org/ |
Foreign Policy | US | Private | 1970 | 51 | https://www.euronews.com/ |
NPR | US | Public | 1970 | 51 | https://www.npr.org/ |
C-SPAN | US | Public | 1979 | 42 | https://www.c-span.org/ |
CNN | US | Private | 1980 | 41 | https://www.cnn.com/ |
The Independent | UK | Private | 1986 | 35 | https://www.independent.co.uk/us |
Sky News | UK | Private | 1986 | 35 | https://news.sky.com/ |
Greg Palast | US | Independent | 1976 | 45 | https://www.gregpalast.com/ |
Euronews | EU | Private | 1993 | 28 | https://www.euronews.com/ |
MSNBC | US | Private | 1996 | 25 | https://www.msnbc.com/ |
Vox | US | Private | 2005 | 16 | https://www.vox.com/ |
Politico | US | Private | 2007 | 14 | https://www.politico.com/ |
Bellingcat | EU | Independent | 2014 | 7 | https://www.bellingcat.com/ |
Gaslit Nation | US | Crowdfunding | 2015 | 6 | https://www.patreon.com/m/1844970/posts |
Axios | US | Private | 2017 | 4 | https://www.axios.com/ |
The Conversationalist | US | Nonprofit | 2019 | 2 | https://conversationalist.org/ |