ABC News

ABC News is the news service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Australia's publicly funded national broadcaster. It provides English-language coverage of domestic politics, international affairs, business, and culture across television, radio, and online. The ABC operates under a statutory charter requiring impartiality and is one of Australia's most trusted and widely used news sources.

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ABC News at a glance

Country: Australia
Region: Australia and New Zealand · Oceania
Kind of outlet: Public broadcaster
Editorial leaning: Centrist
Founded: 1932
Ownership: A statutory corporation, Australia's public broadcaster
Published from: Sydney
Website: abc.net.au ↗
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How Crosswire groups ABC News

Crosswire groups ABC News as Centrist for comparisons within Australia's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Australia, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age are listed as Left-leaning, while The Australian and news.com.au are listed as Right-leaning — so you can open ABC News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where ABC News sits in Australia's press

ABC News was founded in 1932, is published from Sydney and is a statutory corporation, Australia's public broadcaster. It is one of 6 outlets tracked in Australia and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Australia ranks first of the 8 countries on Crosswire's Oceania hub, which lists 32 outlets in all.

Across Oceania, Crosswire tracks 6 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to ABC News outside Australia, starting with Australia and New Zealand, are RNZ (New Zealand), NBC PNG (Papua New Guinea), FBC News (Fiji) and SIBC (Solomon Islands). Opening one of them beside ABC News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.