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See how the world's media covers the same day
Crosswire places the live front pages of major news outlets side by side, so you can see at a glance how the same story is framed in different countries — and across the political spectrum. Choose a country to open its leading outlets together, or use a Left · Center · Right preset to read a left-leaning, a centrist and a right-leaning title in parallel and compare emphasis, framing and story selection.
Coverage spans 186 countries and 907 outlets — from newspapers of record and public broadcasters to business dailies and digital-native outlets. Every outlet has its own page with a description, a live front-page preview and its approximate Crosswire grouping. These labels are comparison aids, not verified ratings of accuracy or neutrality. Crosswire is free and needs no account.
The same comparison runs in the browser you are reading this in, and in the Crosswire apps for iPhone, iPad and Android — one directory, two places to read it, and no advertising on anybody's front page in either.
Make your first comparison
Pick one event and record what each outlet leads with, which sources it cites, and what remains uncertain. Our guide to comparing news coverage explains the method. The printable news comparison worksheet includes a blank table and a fictional worked example you can use on your own or in class.
Before interpreting a leaning label, read the methodology and its limits. For an analysis of our directory rather than today's news, see media bias by country.
Left · Center · Right comparisons
A left-leaning, a centrist and a right-leaning outlet, side by side — every country where the directory carries all three.
Browse by country
Open a country to compare its leading outlets' front pages. All 186 countries with a hub, by region; the number is how many outlets are tracked there.
Europe45 countries · 264 outlets
Northern Europe: Denmark 6 · Estonia 4 · Finland 6 · Iceland 5 · Ireland 6 · Latvia 5 · Lithuania 5 · Norway 6 · Sweden 7 · United Kingdom 9
Western Europe: Austria 6 · Belgium 6 · France 11 · Germany 11 · Liechtenstein 2 · Luxembourg 6 · Monaco 3 · Netherlands 5 · Switzerland 5
Southern Europe: Albania 5 · Andorra 3 · Bosnia and Herzegovina 5 · Croatia 6 · Cyprus 5 · Greece 6 · Italy 10 · Kosovo 3 · Malta 5 · Montenegro 5 · North Macedonia 4 · Portugal 7 · San Marino 2 · Serbia 6 · Slovenia 6 · Spain 13
Central and Eastern Europe: Belarus 5 · Bulgaria 6 · Czech Republic 6 · Hungary 6 · Moldova 5 · Poland 8 · Romania 6 · Russia 6 · Slovakia 6 · Ukraine 5
Middle East and North Africa20 countries · 99 outlets
North Africa: Algeria 5 · Egypt 5 · Libya 4 · Morocco 5 · Tunisia 5
The Levant: Israel 6 · Jordan 5 · Lebanon 6 · Palestine 3 · Syria 3
The Gulf and the Arabian Peninsula: Bahrain 5 · Kuwait 5 · Oman 5 · Qatar 5 · Saudi Arabia 5 · United Arab Emirates 6 · Yemen 4
Africa45 countries · 178 outlets
West Africa: Benin 4 · Burkina Faso 4 · Cape Verde 4 · Côte d'Ivoire 4 · Gambia 4 · Ghana 5 · Guinea 4 · Liberia 3 · Mali 3 · Mauritania 4 · Niger 4 · Nigeria 5 · Senegal 4 · Sierra Leone 3 · Togo 4
East Africa: Comoros 4 · Djibouti 3 · Ethiopia 5 · Kenya 5 · Madagascar 2 · Mauritius 3 · Rwanda 4 · Seychelles 3 · Somalia 4 · South Sudan 4 · Sudan 3 · Tanzania 5 · Uganda 5
Central Africa: Burundi 4 · Cameroon 4 · Central African Republic 3 · Chad 4 · DR Congo 4 · Gabon 4 · Republic of the Congo 3
Southern Africa: Angola 5 · Botswana 5 · Eswatini 2 · Lesotho 3 · Malawi 4 · Mozambique 4 · Namibia 4 · South Africa 6 · Zambia 4 · Zimbabwe 6
Asia33 countries · 169 outlets
East Asia: China 6 · Hong Kong 6 · Japan 6 · Mongolia 4 · South Korea 6 · Taiwan 6
South Asia: Afghanistan 5 · Bangladesh 6 · Bhutan 4 · India 5 · Maldives 4 · Nepal 6 · Pakistan 5 · Sri Lanka 6
Southeast Asia: Brunei 5 · Cambodia 5 · Indonesia 6 · Laos 5 · Malaysia 6 · Myanmar 6 · Philippines 6 · Singapore 6 · Thailand 6 · Timor-Leste 3 · Vietnam 6
Central Asia: Kazakhstan 5 · Kyrgyzstan 4 · Tajikistan 3 · Turkmenistan 4 · Uzbekistan 4
The Caucasus: Armenia 4 · Azerbaijan 5 · Georgia 5
Americas35 countries · 165 outlets
North America: Canada 5 · United States 14
Mexico and Central America: Belize 3 · Costa Rica 5 · El Salvador 6 · Guatemala 5 · Honduras 5 · Mexico 5 · Nicaragua 5 · Panama 5
The Caribbean: Antigua & Barbuda 2 · Bahamas 4 · Barbados 3 · Cuba 4 · Dominica 3 · Dominican Republic 5 · Grenada 4 · Haiti 4 · Jamaica 5 · St. Kitts & Nevis 4 · St. Lucia 3 · St. Vincent & the Grenadines 4 · Trinidad and Tobago 5
South America: Argentina 5 · Bolivia 5 · Brazil 5 · Chile 5 · Colombia 5 · Ecuador 5 · Guyana 4 · Paraguay 5 · Peru 5 · Suriname 3 · Uruguay 5 · Venezuela 5
Oceania8 countries · 32 outlets
Australia and New Zealand: Australia 6 · New Zealand 6
Melanesia: Fiji 4 · Papua New Guinea 4 · Solomon Islands 3 · Vanuatu 2
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Six world regions, each with its countries grouped by subregion and the outlets worth reading first.
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Funding model, publishing cycle and medium change a front page as much as geography does.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Crosswire?+
Crosswire is a free tool that shows the live front pages of major news outlets side by side, so you can compare how the same day is covered across countries and across the political spectrum.
How are political leanings determined?+
The Left, Center and Right labels are approximate orientations drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check — together with each outlet's reputation and ownership. Where no confident rating exists, or an outlet is genuinely centrist or state-aligned, it is shown as Center.
How many countries and outlets does Crosswire cover?+
Crosswire covers 186 countries and more than 900 news outlets, from newspapers of record and public broadcasters to business dailies and digital-native outlets.
Is Crosswire free?+
Yes. Crosswire is free and requires no account. Your favourite outlets are saved locally in your own browser.
Can I compare outlets from different countries?+
Yes. The Favorites view lets you pick outlets from any country and compare their front pages side by side, in your preferred layout.
Can I read foreign outlets in my language?+
Yes. A translation selector localises both the Crosswire interface and the proxied outlet front pages into 16 languages.
Is there a Crosswire app for iPhone or Android?+
Yes. Crosswire is on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and Apple silicon Macs, and on Google Play for Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks. Both are free to install. The apps show the same 186 countries and 907 outlets as the website, add saved comparison sets and custom presets, and meter their free tier at 7 comparisons a month — a limit the website does not have. Details are at crosswire.online/apps.
More questions — previews, freshness, your data, reusing the dataset — are answered in the full FAQ.