The Sierra Leone Telegraph
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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Is The Sierra Leone Telegraph left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists The Sierra Leone Telegraph as Center within Sierra Leone'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.
Read The Sierra Leone Telegraph beside another title from Sierra Leone 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 The Sierra Leone Telegraph 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 The Sierra Leone Telegraph is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning Sierra Leone title either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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