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A free news site that shows how the same story was covered across the political spectrum. Each story gets one page carrying the left, centre and right accounts of it, what each side left out, and the full list of outlets that ran it, with links to the originals.

It is not our judgement. Each outlet carries a published rating from a named third-party organisation that rates news outlets for political leaning and factual reliability. The rating source is named on the methodology page, and the rating is shown against the outlet rather than against any individual story.

Trust measures how well corroborated and evidenced the original reporting is; higher is better. Craft measures the quality of the journalism — context, balance, and fact kept separate from comment; higher is better. Hype measures how far the presentation runs ahead of the substance; lower is better. All three assess the reporting, not the events themselves, and the reasoning behind each score is published beside it.

Yes. There is no paywall, no registration and no article limit. Coverage comparison, source lists and blindspot reporting are the point of the site rather than a paid tier of it.

This site is one. It publishes the same kind of comparison — which outlets ran a story, where each of them sits on the political spectrum, and what each side emphasised — with no subscription, no account and no article limit. Ground News is a real product with a free version of its own and paid plans above it; what those cost is theirs to set, so check their site rather than a summary of it. This one is free in full, and much smaller.

Because what an outlet leaves out does not appear in what it publishes, and an omission cannot be spotted from inside a single account. On a large share of the stories compared here, one side of the political spectrum barely covered the event at all — a reader following only that side would not have known it happened. Each story page states how many outlets ran it and how they split, so the spread can be checked rather than taken on trust.

It publishes what each side reported and links to it, so the comparison can be checked. Where outlets disagree on a fact, the disagreement is reported rather than resolved by us. Where a story has only been covered by one part of the spectrum, that absence is reported too.