What is the most credible news source in your country?
June 3, 2025
Newspaper or website?
20 comments
UK – there aren’t any. You’re always better off hearing from multiple news sources, and coming to your own most logical conclusion, based on the common facts in each. Each one will have their own bias.
We used to have a newspaper called le Canard Enchainé with very good insiders on the government and political scandals. They were very satyrical as well.
Nowadays we have one really good website called Mediapart. They are into investigation journalism.
Most if not all newspapers have a website these days. Most news outlets now belong to billionaires in France and many became far-right propaganda machines, especially all those controlled by Vincent Bolloré (he has TV channels, radios, publishing companies and newspapers). There still are a few big papers with relatively independent journalists like Ouest-France and Le Monde but also Mediapart and Le Canard Enchaîné which are completely independent.
On TV I’ll say Skytg24.
For websites adnkronos or ansa. Both are news agencies
For newspapers?? I don’t know anymore… Maybe il corriere or la stampa
That is subjective but i’d say it is our public news chanhel, RTP (being 1, 2 and 3). The other channels seem to be leaning more towards one side or another.
Yle, the government owned news organisation is generally pretty reliable but has become more biased in recent years in my opinion, but generally they offer a very neutral take on national and international news. They also do a lot of other things than just news such as online language school, children’s entertainment, general entertainment news, podcasts etc
Rúv (Icelandic national broadcasting service) is the best thing we got. Nothing is perfect though they are generally impartial and reliable.
If we are talking about official news sites, then neither.
What i use, is a mix of indepented blogs, foreign websites when news are available and few sources from SoMe profiles, of journalists or people that have proved during time, that their opinion is valid.
News outlets in Greece are completelly controlled by 3 or 4 people, that have close connections to the goverment (especially the current one).
In Germany, it’s difficult tbh. Even our public rights broadcasters have some sort of bias. But for general news without ads, Tagesschau (the main broadcast, as well as the website) is good enough.
What is underrated IMO, is actually reading newspapers. I do read the Rheinische Post everyday and while it has a pro CDU bias, the paper itself is moderate. But they do deliver good enough background reports, so you at least know the stories behind the headlines.
Probably YLE (Finland’s public broadcasting network). Unlike the rest, they don’t make news for money, so they don’t make clickbait atricles or spread hysteria.
Coverage is pretty politically neutral, with only an occasional hint of the reporter’s personal bias.
Public broadcasting globally has a bad reputation with people who constantly do stupid or illegal shit, and they’re mad that the newspapers are covering it. In truth public ownership is what protects it from private or government interference.
BNR, a Dutch news radio channel. Since they are radio they don’t have to make news for the clicks. The whole day long they have experts from different fields to talk about all sorts of topics.
To my opinion one of the most neutral and credible news source.
SVT, the government run news source, is in my opinion the most credible option.
They’re supposed to be unbiased but they do get some criticism from alt-right people. Those people definetly inflate how biased SVT is, but of course it’s nigh impossible for humans to not be at least a tiny bit biased
The other large newspapers are all turning into tabloid bullshit so I don’t read them unless there’s a special event
I also have high trust in the local news company, though I don’t always agree with their liberal ideology I think that they are transparent enough with it so I don’t mind.
The public owned broadcasters and their attached news agencies. In Flanders that is VRT, in Wallonia it is RTBF.
NRK, the national broadcasting network. High quality, real journalism and great foreign correspondents, no clickbait, no ads, no sensationalism.
I’d say the public Swiss Broadcasting Corp (SRG SSR).
It’s in French, German, Italian and Romansh. There’s also Swiss Info (SWI) a news site that’s avail in like 10 languages, aimed for expats.
more a global thing but esp. for here in the UK, Reuters. They don’t do as many local stories for the UK, but they are regarded as the ideal news source. They have very high favtual reporting and are certified as a IFCN Fact Checking organisation.
They are very good and they are pretty much the only news source i will trust. (I look through many websites at a time to try get a big picture, but reuters i will regularly trust out of the gate.)
NOS Nieuws(state supported news agency) or NRC newspaper. Other agencies are more commercially funded or part of DPG (big Belgian media company)
All media has their own clear biases and overall agendas. Some just more overtly than others. This definitely also includes tax funded public service radio and television, which generally has a clear left-wing bias regardless of their own official claims to the contrary. Therefore, the best thing is definitely to try to get your news from as many different sources as possible, and from different political perspectives.
Most likely something called NTB… meaning norwegian telegram bureau… they just deliver the news and press message just as they are unfiltered.. It’s the newspapers and tv that make their news “less credible”. They deliver news to tons of norwegian news outlets. NTB is owned by all the mayor player in norwegian journalistics.
N1. It’s a regional channel (ex-Yugoslavia) and often targeted as traitors or foreign mercenaries by government owned media.
20 comments
UK – there aren’t any. You’re always better off hearing from multiple news sources, and coming to your own most logical conclusion, based on the common facts in each. Each one will have their own bias.
We used to have a newspaper called le Canard Enchainé with very good insiders on the government and political scandals. They were very satyrical as well.
Nowadays we have one really good website called Mediapart. They are into investigation journalism.
Most if not all newspapers have a website these days. Most news outlets now belong to billionaires in France and many became far-right propaganda machines, especially all those controlled by Vincent Bolloré (he has TV channels, radios, publishing companies and newspapers). There still are a few big papers with relatively independent journalists like Ouest-France and Le Monde but also Mediapart and Le Canard Enchaîné which are completely independent.
On TV I’ll say Skytg24.
For websites adnkronos or ansa. Both are news agencies
For newspapers?? I don’t know anymore… Maybe il corriere or la stampa
That is subjective but i’d say it is our public news chanhel, RTP (being 1, 2 and 3). The other channels seem to be leaning more towards one side or another.
Yle, the government owned news organisation is generally pretty reliable but has become more biased in recent years in my opinion, but generally they offer a very neutral take on national and international news. They also do a lot of other things than just news such as online language school, children’s entertainment, general entertainment news, podcasts etc
Rúv (Icelandic national broadcasting service) is the best thing we got. Nothing is perfect though they are generally impartial and reliable.
If we are talking about official news sites, then neither.
What i use, is a mix of indepented blogs, foreign websites when news are available and few sources from SoMe profiles, of journalists or people that have proved during time, that their opinion is valid.
News outlets in Greece are completelly controlled by 3 or 4 people, that have close connections to the goverment (especially the current one).
In Germany, it’s difficult tbh. Even our public rights broadcasters have some sort of bias. But for general news without ads, Tagesschau (the main broadcast, as well as the website) is good enough.
What is underrated IMO, is actually reading newspapers. I do read the Rheinische Post everyday and while it has a pro CDU bias, the paper itself is moderate. But they do deliver good enough background reports, so you at least know the stories behind the headlines.
Probably YLE (Finland’s public broadcasting network). Unlike the rest, they don’t make news for money, so they don’t make clickbait atricles or spread hysteria.
Coverage is pretty politically neutral, with only an occasional hint of the reporter’s personal bias.
Public broadcasting globally has a bad reputation with people who constantly do stupid or illegal shit, and they’re mad that the newspapers are covering it. In truth public ownership is what protects it from private or government interference.
BNR, a Dutch news radio channel. Since they are radio they don’t have to make news for the clicks. The whole day long they have experts from different fields to talk about all sorts of topics.
To my opinion one of the most neutral and credible news source.
SVT, the government run news source, is in my opinion the most credible option.
They’re supposed to be unbiased but they do get some criticism from alt-right people. Those people definetly inflate how biased SVT is, but of course it’s nigh impossible for humans to not be at least a tiny bit biased
The other large newspapers are all turning into tabloid bullshit so I don’t read them unless there’s a special event
I also have high trust in the local news company, though I don’t always agree with their liberal ideology I think that they are transparent enough with it so I don’t mind.
The public owned broadcasters and their attached news agencies. In Flanders that is VRT, in Wallonia it is RTBF.
NRK, the national broadcasting network. High quality, real journalism and great foreign correspondents, no clickbait, no ads, no sensationalism.
I’d say the public Swiss Broadcasting Corp (SRG SSR).
It’s in French, German, Italian and Romansh. There’s also Swiss Info (SWI) a news site that’s avail in like 10 languages, aimed for expats.
more a global thing but esp. for here in the UK, Reuters. They don’t do as many local stories for the UK, but they are regarded as the ideal news source. They have very high favtual reporting and are certified as a IFCN Fact Checking organisation.
They are very good and they are pretty much the only news source i will trust. (I look through many websites at a time to try get a big picture, but reuters i will regularly trust out of the gate.)
Source: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/reuters/
NOS Nieuws(state supported news agency) or NRC newspaper. Other agencies are more commercially funded or part of DPG (big Belgian media company)
All media has their own clear biases and overall agendas. Some just more overtly than others. This definitely also includes tax funded public service radio and television, which generally has a clear left-wing bias regardless of their own official claims to the contrary. Therefore, the best thing is definitely to try to get your news from as many different sources as possible, and from different political perspectives.
Most likely something called NTB… meaning norwegian telegram bureau… they just deliver the news and press message just as they are unfiltered.. It’s the newspapers and tv that make their news “less credible”. They deliver news to tons of norwegian news outlets. NTB is owned by all the mayor player in norwegian journalistics.
N1. It’s a regional channel (ex-Yugoslavia) and often targeted as traitors or foreign mercenaries by government owned media.