Ideally ones that provide RSS/Atom feeds. Currently, I’m following the BBC, CBC, The Guardian, DW, and Al Jazeera, and they provide reliable information, but there is always a bit of a bias. For instance, BBC and DW are quite pro-Israel, while Al Jazeera are rarely critical of the Qatari government. Are there any independent news outlets that have less of bias w/ RSS feeds?
edit: Wording has been changed a bit. One more thing, I’d rather have news sources that are not US-centric. As somebody from Hong Kong, I’d also like to ask if there are any good ones that cover the South China + Southeast Asia region, since SCMP was bought out by Alibaba a few years ago.
Just don’t use BBC for anything related to the Palestinian genocide.
The only part of the BBC reporting that may still be useful is the 6am Radio 4 news.
404 Media? I’m not much one to follow news, so I can’t speak to accuracy or biases, but I’ve heard them recommend as an independent source. Especially since, they should be less beholden to corporate interests since they’re a journalist cooperative.
Headlines are unbeatable. The other half is delightfully left.
Axios and AP are ok too imo
I assume DW is Deutsche Welle? It seems like they are having news without subscription and cookie banner that forces subscription or accepting the cookies so I will start to read it.
The intercept does good work. Surprised no one has mentioned them yet.
Australia has two public broadcasters: ABC and SBS. Both provide reasonably balanced reporting.
abc.net.au/news is the main one, similar in concept to the BBC. Officially they don’t support RSS feeds any longer, but they still exist and work. See https://james.cridland.net/blog/2025/abc-news-australia-rss-feeds/
sbs.com.au/news is our “Special Broadcasting Service” and caters to our more multicultural and indigenous audiences in general, but their news is fairly solid, perhaps without the breadth and depth of the ABC. Their main RSS news feed is at https://www.sbs.com.au/news/feed and they have others. See https://feedsearch.dev/api/v1/search?result=true&url=sbs.com.au
I will follow SBS, thanks mate!
If you’re looking for general news I subscribe to Grist, The Conversation, Mother Jones, and ProPublica. They have a mostly neutral bias. I also have some leftie sources: Vox, The 19th, and Jacobin. And one right wing news source that is more libertarian than MAGA: The American Conservative, just to keep an eye on them. All of those have a US bias. The EFF’s Deep Links and Open Culture are also great but are more niche.
The guardian.
Nice to see many people recommending the Guardian. I have been thinking of getting more news from news outlets from around Europe and one from UK feels easy since it will be in English.
It has developed into a true international newspaper.
I’m conflicted if it is good or bad if they focus more international. It feels more relevant but it might also write the same news as other news outlets and then I’m just reading the same news from several sources. I will probably buy a 1 year subscription and evaluate what I think about it.
German ARD and ZDF are about as reliable as BBC, if you don’t mind using translation tools.
correct, three of them are Zionists propagandists but calling them reliable is a skit
You are right to use multiple sources. Avoid US sources except NPR, PBS, AP news. Decent sources also include ProPublica, DW, the Narwhal, the rabble, the Tyee, Reuters
Drop Site, Breaking Points, 404, The Guardian
I second Breaking Points. Very good news source with viewpoints you won’t hear in most places.
My only complaint is they do have an analyst named Emily Jashinsky who is a Tucker Carlson type, and whenever she opines I grit my teeth a little. (Though, like Tucker, she is knowledgeable and occasionally offers angles on issues I didn’t consider.)
I know what you mean by pro corporate bias and I don’t know how exactly to describe it. Maybe that they tend to be reluctant to rock the boat too much?
I like the daily beans podcasts with allison gill and daina goldberg. They do a podcast and a few other things… they’re great.
Hmm… it’s gonna be tough to find brands that produce quality international news without something of a corpo bent.
Maybe if you have areas of interest you can find writers and reporters in that space who you can follow and perhaps compensate directly.
Also, have you considered Ground News?
If OP is trying to avoid corporate biases, Ground News may not be quite what they’re looking for. Eric Rosenfield has an excellent pair of videos (one, two) doing a long form deep dive on the company. It’s an excellent bit of citizen journalism and well worth the watch. That said, it’s not a short watch, so the tldr is that by presenting both sides as having equal weight and relevance it normalizes the bat shit insane stuff presented by one of the sides. The second video digs into the Ground News owners/ board members and partner organizations used for assigning biases. All of which are overwhelmingly corporate and very far removed from the ideals of journalism.
Also, have you considered Ground News?
It looks very US-centric, and it’s always a bad idea to get all your news from one source. I’m personally not a fan, and would rather get news from multiple different outlets and judge them myself.
Ground news has a bizarre scale of left to right. Pointless.
