SRF

SRF is listed as Center on Crosswire: as a public-service broadcaster its mandate is broad, balanced coverage rather than a party-political editorial line. In Switzerland, NZZ is listed as Right-leaning — so you can open SRF beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read SRF beside another title from Switzerland and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Public-service broadcasters usually carry a wider spread of civic, regional and cultural stories than commercial rivals, and lead less often on conflict or celebrity — so the gap between SRF's front page and a commercially funded one is often less about opinion than about what each considers newsworthy in the first place. Because SRF is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Switzerland 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 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

SRF was founded in 2011, is published from Zurich and is owned by SRG SSR, the Swiss public broadcaster. It is one of 5 outlets tracked in Switzerland and the only public broadcaster tracked there. By outlets tracked, Switzerland ranks 30th of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.

Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 27 of the 59 public broadcasters in the directory. The nearest counterparts to SRF outside Switzerland, starting with Western Europe, are ORF (Austria), RTL Today (Luxembourg), BBC News (United Kingdom) and RTÉ News (Ireland). Opening one of them beside SRF is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.