The Chronicles
The Chronicles is a Rwandan English-language news site covering national news, opinion, courts, business and tourism. It runs editor's-pick features alongside political and community reporting.
The Chronicles at a glance
- Country
- Rwanda
- Region
- East Africa · Africa
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- chronicles.rw ↗
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Is The Chronicles left-leaning, right-leaning or centrist?
Crosswire lists The Chronicles as Center within Rwanda'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 Chronicles beside another title from Rwanda 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 Chronicles 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 Chronicles is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Rwanda either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.
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Where The Chronicles sits in Rwanda's press
The Chronicles is one of 4 outlets tracked in Rwanda, and one of 2 digital-native outlets among them — the other being KT Press. By outlets tracked, Rwanda ranks 21st of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Africa hub, which lists 178 outlets in all.
Across Africa, Crosswire tracks 64 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The Chronicles outside Rwanda, starting with East Africa, are Hiiraan Online (Somalia), Radio Dabanga (Sudan), Radio Tamazuj (South Sudan) and Madagascar Tribune (Madagascar). Opening one of them beside The Chronicles is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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