THEBalanced Truth

News should be accessible, free and fair.

Our sources

These are the outlets we read, and how we label each one's lean and paywall.

How we decide an outlet's lean

We don't decide it ourselves. Every outlet follows one public rule: we use its AllSides media bias rating. Left or Lean Left counts as left, Center as center, and Lean Right or Right as right. If AllSides hasn't rated an outlet, we use Ad Fontes Media instead. Each outlet's rating is shown below. We re-check them every few months, and readers can challenge any label.

Help choose our sources

Suggest a new outlet, or tell us a label is wrong. Other readers vote on each suggestion, and the most-supported ones are reviewed first.

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Left Left-leaning

  • The New York Times AllSides: Lean Left · A few free articles a month · 78 headlines in the last update
  • The Guardian (US) AllSides: Left · Free to read · 47 headlines in the last update
  • NPR AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 27 headlines in the last update
  • CBS News AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 51 headlines in the last update
  • ABC News AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 33 headlines in the last update
  • NBC News AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 34 headlines in the last update
  • HuffPost AllSides: Left · Free to read · 26 headlines in the last update
  • Vox AllSides: Left · Free to read · 10 headlines in the last update
  • Mother Jones AllSides: Left · Free to read · 10 headlines in the last update
  • CNN AllSides: Lean Left · A few free articles a month · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • The Washington Post AllSides: Lean Left · Paywall · 57 headlines in the last update
  • Politico AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 27 headlines in the last update
  • AP News AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • Axios AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 28 headlines in the last update
  • PBS NewsHour AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 32 headlines in the last update
  • CNBC AllSides: Lean Left · Free to read · 33 headlines in the last update

Center Center-leaning

  • Reuters AllSides: Center · A few free articles a month · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • BBC News AllSides: Center · Free to read · 61 headlines in the last update
  • The Hill AllSides: Center · Free to read · 56 headlines in the last update
  • The Christian Science Monitor AllSides: Center · A few free articles a month · 10 headlines in the last update
  • The Wall Street Journal AllSides: Center · Paywall · 100 headlines in the last update
  • Bloomberg AllSides: Center · Paywall · 60 headlines in the last update
  • Newsweek AllSides: Center · Free to read · 20 headlines in the last update
  • NewsNation AllSides: Center · Free to read · 14 headlines in the last update
  • Straight Arrow News AllSides: Center · Free to read · 1 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • UPI Ad Fontes: -1.1 (AllSides has no rating) · Free to read · 36 headlines in the last update
  • Deseret News AllSides: Center · Free to read · 19 headlines in the last update
  • MarketWatch AllSides: Center · A few free articles a month · 10 headlines in the last update
  • Forbes AllSides: Center · A few free articles a month · 25 headlines in the last update
  • Financial Times AllSides: Center · Paywall · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • Reason AllSides: Center · Free to read · 35 headlines in the last update

Right Right-leaning

  • Fox News AllSides: Right · Free to read · 80 headlines in the last update
  • Fox Business AllSides: Lean Right · Free to read · 19 headlines in the last update
  • New York Post AllSides: Right · Free to read · 100 headlines in the last update
  • Washington Examiner AllSides: Lean Right · Free to read · 19 headlines in the last update
  • The Washington Times AllSides: Lean Right · Free to read · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • The Daily Caller AllSides: Lean Right · Free to read · 25 headlines in the last update
  • Washington Free Beacon AllSides: Right · Free to read · 7 headlines in the last update
  • National Review AllSides: Lean Right · A few free articles a month · 12 headlines in the last update
  • The Federalist AllSides: Right · Free to read · 12 headlines in the last update
  • The Daily Wire AllSides: Right · Free to read · 40 headlines in the last update
  • Newsmax AllSides: Right · Free to read · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • Breitbart AllSides: Right · Free to read · 40 headlines in the last update
  • The Epoch Times AllSides: Lean Right · A few free articles a month · 40 headlines in the last update, read through Google News
  • TheBlaze AllSides: Right · Free to read · 30 headlines in the last update
  • The Dispatch AllSides: Lean Right · A few free articles a month · 10 headlines in the last update
  • Just the News AllSides: Lean Right · Free to read · 20 headlines in the last update

We only use each outlet's public feed: headlines and short descriptions. Some outlets, like Reuters and AP, have no public feed, so we read their headlines through a Google News search limited to their website. We link to the original articles and never copy them.