Liberia news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 3 major Liberia news outlets. Preview their homepages side by side below — switch between two, three and four columns, go compact, or translate every page into your language.
The Liberia media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays Liberia's front pages next to one another so you can see which stories lead where, how headlines are framed, and what one outlet foregrounds that another leaves out. All 3 titles tracked in Liberia sit near the editorial centre in our classification, which is common where the press is dominated by public broadcasters and agencies, or where no confident left/right rating was available. Comparison here is less about political line than about which stories each newsroom judges worth the top of the page.
By kind of outlet, the 3 titles break down as 3 daily newspapers (Daily Observer, FrontPage Africa and The New Dawn). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for Liberia, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead.
Liberia sits in West Africa, on Crosswire's Africa hub. By outlets tracked it is 15th of the 15 countries in West Africa and 37th of the 45 across Africa, where the average is 4 outlets per country. Its neighbours in West Africa with hubs of their own are Nigeria (5), Ghana (5), Senegal (4), Côte d'Ivoire (4), Burkina Faso (4), Niger (4), Guinea (4), Gambia (4), Togo (4), Benin (4), Cape Verde (4), Mauritania (4), Mali (3) and Sierra Leone (3).
Leaning groupings are approximate guides drawn from widely cited media-bias assessments — see the methodology and what the labels can and can't tell you. Counts are taken from the directory as of .
Which are Liberia's main news outlets?
Across Liberia's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists near the center, Daily Observer, FrontPage Africa and The New Dawn. Each outlet below links to a full profile — its facts, editorial leaning and a live front-page preview — and the comparison view above shows any of them side by side.
The Daily Observer, published by the Liberian Observer Corporation in Monrovia, is Liberia's oldest independent daily newspaper, founded in 1981 by Kenneth Y. Best. Repeatedly shut down under past regimes, it remains a leading print and online source for Liberian news, covering politics, business, society and culture nationwide.
FrontPage Africa is a Monrovia-based independent newspaper and news website founded by journalist Rodney Sieh in 2005. Known for investigative reporting on corruption and governance, it has faced repeated legal action over its journalism and is widely regarded as one of Liberia's most influential news organizations, in print and online.
The New Dawn is an independent daily newspaper published in Monrovia under the motto Truly Independent. Produced by Searchlight Communications, it covers Liberian politics, the legislature, business, health and county-level news, with an online edition updated daily, and is an established fixture of Liberia's post-war independent press.
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