Sierra Leone news, front pages compared
Crosswire tracks 3 major Sierra Leone 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 Sierra Leone media landscape on Crosswire
Crosswire lays Sierra Leone'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 Sierra Leone 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 2 digital-native outlets (Sierraloaded and The Sierra Leone Telegraph) and 1 television news channel (AYV News). Crosswire lists no public-service broadcaster for Sierra Leone, so the fixed point in a comparison has to be a wire service or the most widely read daily instead.
Sierra Leone sits in West Africa, on Crosswire's Africa hub. By outlets tracked it is 14th of the 15 countries in West Africa and 42nd 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 Liberia (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 Sierra Leone's main news outlets?
Across Sierra Leone's editorial spectrum, Crosswire currently lists near the center, AYV News, Sierraloaded and The Sierra Leone Telegraph. 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.
AYV News is the news operation of Africa Young Voices Media Empire, one of Sierra Leone's largest private media groups, based in Freetown. Operating national television and radio channels alongside its website, it covers Sierra Leonean politics, business, entertainment and sport, and its bulletins are among the most-watched news programming in the country.
Sierraloaded is a Freetown-based digital outlet covering Sierra Leone news, politics, business, entertainment and sport. Aimed at a broad online audience, it publishes breaking stories, features and trending content, and has grown into one of the most-visited Sierra Leonean websites, particularly among young readers at home and in the diaspora.
The Sierra Leone Telegraph is an online newspaper covering Sierra Leonean politics, governance, the economy and development. Founded and edited by Sierra Leonean journalist Abdul Rashid Thomas and published from the United Kingdom, it combines news with opinion and analysis and is widely read in Sierra Leone and across the diaspora.
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