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News24

News24 is one of South Africa's largest online news portals, operated by Media24, part of the Naspers group. It provides English-language coverage of South African politics, business, sport, and breaking news, alongside international stories. With a large digital readership, it is among the most visited news websites in the country and offers both free and subscription content.

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Is News24 left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?

Crosswire lists News24 as Center within South Africa's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side. In South Africa, Mail & Guardian is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open News24 beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read News24 beside another title from South Africa and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. A portal front page is part newsroom and part aggregator, so on News24 the editorial signal is in the ordering and in which syndicated stories get promoted next to the original reporting — read it beside a single-newsroom title and the difference in what each chooses to carry is immediate. Because News24 is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning South Africa title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

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 . Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

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