Net News

Net News is generally regarded as right-leaning in its editorial orientation, according to widely cited media-bias assessments — a stance that shapes which stories this digital-native outlet chooses to pursue. In Malta, MaltaToday and Lovin Malta are listed as Left-leaning, while Times of Malta and The Malta Independent are listed as Centrist — so you can open Net News beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read Net News beside another title from Malta and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Digital-native outlets reorder their front pages continuously in response to reader behaviour, so Net News may look different an hour from now — reload it alongside a print-cycle title and you can see which stories have staying power and which are traffic spikes. Because Net News is listed as right-leaning, the sharpest contrast is usually a left-leaning title from Malta on the same morning: the facts rarely differ, but which consequence is treated as the story often does.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

Net News is one of 5 outlets tracked in Malta, and one of 2 digital-native outlets among them — the other being Lovin Malta. By outlets tracked, Malta ranks 31st of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 31 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Net News outside Malta, starting with Southern Europe, are SDK.mk (North Macedonia), Exit.al (Albania), Altaveu (Andorra) and The Independent (United Kingdom). Opening one of them beside Net News is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.