Definition of independent for the purposes of this question: source is not owned by a for-profit corporation, is not financially backed by any billionaire (either directly or via foundation or nonprofit organization) and is not financed by any national government (even if run without oversight).
It can have any perceived bias or political leaning.
Edit: Just to add it has to be written in English.
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Ground news is an aggregator for news sources but it tries to show the bias of the news orgs whose stories it shows. This tool may help you find the independent sources you seek while also informing you of their potential bias and ownership
Unfortunately the social media pages for ground news are plauged with right wingers that turned me off from the site entirely
Paid, but even cheaper tier is worth it.
It has paid tiers, but I’ve been using it for free
Try the BBC. Or the English channels of DW (Deutsche Welle).
Keep in mind that shutting down independent or opposing media is a top priority for any dictator. Local sources will die off quickly.
BBC
Are you serious? The BBC are literally a government mouthpiece, with a subversive right-wing bias. When Labour is in power, they over-report every misdeed, and when the Tories are in power, they maybe raise an eyebrow as the country burns. The last BBC director was a major Tory who received a sizeable bribe from his party during his tenure.
In the UK the BBC is hugely pro-establishment but their reporting on world news is fantastic.
You’re in a news grave, Peter!
The BBC has been accused of being too far left. Often at the same time. In comparison to other English speaking news sources the BBC is quite neutral.
I’ll compromise: they’re about as politically neutral as the US democratic party is left-wing.
TheGuardian is pretty decent.
This fits what you’re looking for:
Mother Jones is run by a nonprofit funded by reader donations. I’m sure some billionaires probably donate to it, but so do others.
Good journalism tends to cost a lot, more than independents can gather. Especially independents that don’t do it to promote their agenda.
The only one that comes to mind is CSM. It’s nonprofit, and in spite of the name, there’s been nothing religious about it.
The international version of Der Spiegel and the Singaporean Straits Times are backed by for-profit organizations, but I appreciate their reporting.
If you’re in Australia then there is Independent Australia, they interview everyone including our racist parties (like one nation for example) alongside our good parties
I watched one of their videos where they interviewed australian political parties and I could tell one nation representative (one of Australia’s racist bad guy political parties) was carefully wording stuff to manipulate the interview like they had been trained to do it
I stopped watching after that
I’d say their quality is low though from the one video I did watch
Here’s information on Australia’s media bias if you want it
https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/filtered-search/?country=AU
https://imgur.com/how-accurate-is-this-chart-still-australian-media-INOCxxA
https://imgur.com/how-accurate-is-this-chart-still-australian-media-INOCxxA
I listen to NPR often and I enjoy it, but it ultimately has the same problem as other mainstream outlets in that they are beholden to advertisers and, in turn, to extractors of capital. It leans left socially, but as with almost all other major news organizations, it is self-interested and will almost always support neocolonialist US practices. One tiny, not-the-best but temporally relevant example – they have yet to call what’s happening in Gaza genocide.
As someone else mentioned, there is Democracy Now!, they are viewer funded, but that is also supplemented by groups such as the Ford Foundation, which obviously has ties to capital as well. Still, Democracy Now! will give more of an “outside looking in” view of the United States.
I like listening to both NPR and Democracy Now! to hear both the US-centric (capitalist) points vs the a more global (and anti-capitalist) viewpoint.
I’ve read some good balanced stuff on “substack”. But you have to pay for most of their content. I found a few real journalists there that will allow you to read some of their stuff no charge
The Lever.
Drop Site News.
Don’t follow news sources. Follow journalists.
Most journalists are still sitting on Twitter or those that got kick out from Twitter are on Nazi infested Substack.
I didn’t mean follow as in Twitter. I meant follow as in pay attention to them and the stories they work on.
