CBC News

CBC News is the news service of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Canada's national public-service broadcaster. It provides television, radio, and online coverage of national and international affairs in English and is one of the country's most widely used news sources, operating under a public-service mandate.

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CBC News at a glance

Country: Canada
Region: North America · Americas
Kind of outlet: Public broadcaster
Editorial leaning: Left-leaning
Founded: 1936
Ownership: A Crown corporation, Canada's public broadcaster
Published from: Ottawa
Website: cbc.ca ↗
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How Crosswire groups CBC News

Crosswire groups CBC News as Left-leaning for comparisons within Canada's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Canada, The Globe and Mail and CTV News are listed as Centrist, while National Post is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open CBC News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

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Where CBC News sits in Canada's press

CBC News was founded in 1936, is published from Ottawa and is a Crown corporation, Canada's public broadcaster. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Canada and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Canada ranks third of the 35 countries on Crosswire's Americas hub, which lists 165 outlets in all.

Across the Americas, Crosswire tracks 8 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to CBC News outside Canada, starting with North America, are ZNS Bahamas (Bahamas), ABS TV/Radio (Antigua & Barbuda), ZIZ (St. Kitts & Nevis) and NBC SVG (St. Vincent & the Grenadines). Opening one of them beside CBC News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.