The News Lens

Crosswire lists The News Lens as Center within Taiwan'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 Taiwan, Taipei Times is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open The News Lens beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.

Read The News Lens beside another title from Taiwan 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 News Lens 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 News Lens is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Taiwan 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.

The News Lens is one of 6 outlets tracked in Taiwan, and one of 2 digital-native outlets among them — the other being Taiwan News. By outlets tracked, Taiwan ranks fourth of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.

Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 39 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The News Lens outside Taiwan, starting with East Asia, are Jakarta Globe (Indonesia), Free Malaysia Today (Malaysia), Khaosod English (Thailand) and Mothership (Singapore). Opening one of them beside The News Lens is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.