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Every story on this site cites published outlets. This page shows who they are: where each is based, who owns or funds it, and whom its coverage favours, counted story by story from its own articles. See how this works.

245outlets cited
16countries
22%of citations via wire agencies
96articles analysed for whom they favour
Associated PressNews agency · New York, United States
10 stories

Owner: AP member news organizations

Our reading: In the AP copy we read, the agency gave the defence or denial of the party under pressure at length, and added context to official statements, such as what the State Department did and did not say.

ReutersNews agency · London, United Kingdom
9 stories

Owner: Thomson Reuters

Our reading: In the Reuters wire copy we tracked (mostly carried by NBC News, The Moscow Times and The Star), each side's claims were attributed to the party making them and the other side's position was included in the same story, usually within the first half; sourcing to unnamed officials was labelled as such.

CBS NewsBroadcaster · New York, United States
8 stories

Owner: CBS News and Stations

Our reading: In the CBS News stories we read, it led with official actions and statements and framed the French protests through fiscal and political context; it quoted Meta's side in the Meta ruling story but carried no Iranian response in its Iran memo story.

CNBCBroadcaster · Englewood Cliffs, United States
6 stories

Owner: Versant Media Group

Our reading: In the CNBC stories we read, it covered unrest through its cost to business and markets and used Reuters copy for breaking news; its France stories quoted officials and business voices rather than protesters.

The TribuneNewspaper · Chandigarh, India
6 stories

Owner: N. N. Vohra

Our reading: In the four stories we tracked, The Tribune's own reporting gave the first word to the principal actor (the CJP leaders in October 2026, the government's tribunal case in January 2025) and did not carry the other side's response in the same story; its foreign-affairs copy was syndicated ANI.

OutlookMagazine · New Delhi, India
5 stories

Owner: Rajan Raheja Group

Our reading: Across the stories we tracked, Outlook's desk reports were built mostly from the stated position of one side: the protesters in its march report, officials in its security-deployment report and the Speaker in its CEC report. In the border story it quoted opposition critics alongside the ITBP chief.

CNNBroadcaster · Atlanta, United States
4 stories

Owner: CNN Worldwide

Our reading: In its two France stories CNN led with the government's response, quoted protesters by name alongside officials and reported criticism of the police; neither mentioned the Palestinian flags other outlets reported.

EuronewsBroadcaster · Lyon, France
Purchase partly financed by the Hungarian state: €45 million (Direkt36, Le Monde, Expresso); Alpac denied public money (reported)Programmes co-funded by the European Commission
4 stories

Owner: Alpac Capital

Our reading: In the three stories we tracked on the French protests, Euronews led with security measures and gave most space to government and police voices. Opposition leaders were quoted, while protesters and students were mostly described rather than quoted.

France 24Broadcaster · Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
Controlled by France's government (owner)Controlled by France's government (main funder, via a share of VAT revenue)
4 stories

Owner: France Médias Monde

Our reading: In the three stories we tracked, France 24 ran wire-based reports (AFP, Reuters, AP) that carried the official side, including denials, and reported harsher terms for protesters as quotes from officials.

NBC NewsBroadcaster · New York, United States
4 stories

Owner: NBCUniversal News Group

Our reading: In the NBC News stories we read, it followed US government claims with the other side's denial and checked political claims against what officials had actually said.

Yahoo FinanceDigital outlet · New York, United States
4 stories

Owner: Yahoo Inc.

Our reading: Of the three Yahoo Finance pages we tracked, two were BBC and Bloomberg copy carried with credit; its own market blog relied on company statements, analyst notes and other outlets' reporting.

Business TodayMagazine · New Delhi, India
3 stories

Owner: Aroon Purie

Our reading: Business Today's desk copy in the four stories we tracked was built on company disclosures, market data and other outlets' reporting, with few named sources and no critical or opposing voices; its Rubio story did not mention that he skipped Delhi.

Investing.comDigital outlet · Nicosia, Cyprus
3 stories

Owner: Fusion Media Limited

Our reading: Of the four Investing.com articles cited by the five stories we tracked, two were Reuters wire copy and two were its own market reports. Most rested on company statements or market data, and few quoted outside voices.

The Daily JagranDigital outlet · Kanpur, India
Controlled by Mahendra Mohan Gupta (director: chairman of the parent company; Samajwadi Party Rajya Sabha MP 2006–2012) (reported)Parent group criticised for one-sided pro-BJP coverage (Newslaundry, The Caravan) (reported)
3 stories

Owner: Mahendra Mohan Gupta

Our reading: In the political stories we tracked, The Daily Jagran built its reports around official and court positions and carried no direct statement from the opposition or the CJP; its IPO report sourced its figures and flagged that grey-market premiums are not a guide to listing gains.

The Free Press JournalNewspaper · Mumbai, India
3 stories

Owner: Indian National Press (Bombay) Pvt. Ltd.

Our reading: In the CJP and CEC stories we tracked, The Free Press Journal relied on unnamed officials for its foreign-interference report and on the Speaker for its CEC report, while its report on the freed CJP leaders was told mainly through one of them.

The Times of IsraelDigital outlet · Jerusalem, Israel
2 stories

Owner: David Horovitz

Our reading: Of the three stories we tracked, two ran as wire copy (AP, JTA) rather than its own reporting. Its own Iran piece led with the New York Times report and carried Netanyahu's denial high up; the partner-site JTA piece on the Paris synagogue included the SPCJ's finding that there was no evidence of deliberate targeting.

Arab NewsNewspaper · Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Controlled by Saudi Arabia's state, through the Public Investment Fund (owner) (reported)Promotes the Saudi government (Wikipedia; AP and Haaretz) (reported)
1 story

Owner: Saudi Research and Media Group

Asharq Al-AwsatNewspaper · London, United Kingdom
Controlled by Saudi Arabia's state, through the Public Investment Fund (owner) (reported)Controlled by Faisal bin Salman, a son of King Salman and former governor of Madinah (owner) (reported)
1 story

Owner: Saudi Research and Media Group

Mehr News AgencyNews agency · Tehran, Iran
Controlled by Iran's government, through the Islamic Development Organization (owner)Controlled by Iran's Supreme Leader, who selects its director (director)
1 story

Owner: Islamic Development Organization

The PeninsulaNewspaper · Doha, Qatar
Controlled by Khalid bin Thani Al Thani, a member of Qatar's ruling family (owner, director: chairman)Pro-government stance (Wikipedia) (reported)
1 story

Owner: Dar Al Sharq Media Group

How this works

Who it favours. Left and right mean different things in different countries, and they miss the most common bias in news: siding with a country, a government or a party. So for every story with competing sides (the US and Iran, a government and an opposition movement, two parties) we read each outlet's article and record whether it favoured one side. An outlet's page then counts how often it favoured each side out of the stories in which that side was involved. The count grows as we add stories, at every level: one country against another, or one party against another inside a country.

We look for four signals in the outlet's own text:

  • Leads with one side. The headline or first paragraph gives one side's account.
  • Leaves out the other side. The other side's response, reported elsewhere, is missing.
  • Uses one side's terms. It describes people or events in one side's words.
  • States a claim as fact. One side's unproven claim is presented as established.

An article counts as favouring a side only when at least 2 signals point the same way, and each signal is backed by a quote of 25 words or fewer from the article, shown on the page. Otherwise it counts as balanced, and balanced articles stay in the count, so "favoured in 2 of 9 stories" means 7 were not. Articles we could not read are left out. Counts based on fewer than 3 stories are marked as such and not shown on cards. Sides are countries, governments, parties or movements, never individual people, and never a religion.

Who controls it. We treat whoever owns an outlet, provides most of its money, or directs it (its chairman, board or the editors they appoint) as controlling it. So a government that owns or funds an outlet controls it, and so does an owner or director who is a politician, whatever the outlet says about its independence (we quote that claim too). Each outlet lists these controllers: a government, a party, or a politician. These are tags with a source and a status (confirmed, reported, alleged or denied); nothing is presented as fact unless it is confirmed.

Outside raters. For comparison, outlet pages also show left–right labels from AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check where they exist, quoted with their own wording:

RaterTheir labelShown here as
AllSidesLeftLeft
AllSidesLean LeftLeft-centre
AllSidesCenterCentre
AllSidesLean RightRight-centre
AllSidesRightRight
Ad Fontes MediaHyper-partisan leftLeft
Ad Fontes MediaLeftLeft
Ad Fontes MediaSkews leftLeft-centre
Ad Fontes MediaMiddleCentre
Ad Fontes MediaSkews rightRight-centre
Ad Fontes MediaRightRight
Ad Fontes MediaHyper-partisan rightRight
Media Bias/Fact CheckExtreme LeftLeft
Media Bias/Fact CheckFar LeftLeft
Media Bias/Fact CheckLeftLeft
Media Bias/Fact CheckLeft-CenterLeft-centre
Media Bias/Fact CheckLeast BiasedCentre
Media Bias/Fact CheckRight-CenterRight-centre
Media Bias/Fact CheckRightRight
Media Bias/Fact CheckFar RightRight
Media Bias/Fact CheckExtreme RightRight
Reuters Institute Digital News ReportTrust score by country (not a leaning)

Disagree with a reading? Every count links to the articles and quotes behind it. Spotted an error? See corrections.