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Is there a list of prominent English language newspapers from each country?

Like:

UK: Times/Guardian

US: NYT/WP

Australia: The Australian

Singapore: Straits Times

HongKong : SCMP

Pakistan: Dawn

India: Hindu

Nigeria: Guardian Nigeria

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“The Australian” is a national aggregation of the local city based Murdock owned papers.

It should not be listed without its competitors the Fairfax owned papers the “Sydney Morning Herald” and “The Age” also being listed.

Both the Murdock and Fairfax owned papers are equally prominent in the Australian media landscape and are essentially a duopoly in Australia’s biggest cities.

The Aus media ownership landscape is such a car crash. Rupert Murdoch is a cancer.

For the Arab world: Al Jazeera.

For Canada: CBC/Radio-Canada (the french speaking side)

Although more news oriented, my favorite sources for quality information in the US are the associated press (AP News) and Reuters.

>For Canada: CBC/Radio-Canada (the french speaking side)

I don't know about the french side, but english side of the CBC has been publishing an awful lot of political activism. Then again Quebec has CAQ and Bloc as representatives?

It has gotten to the point that Conservative party pretty much runs on defunding them. Detrimentally and they are aware of it, they don't care, it's the right thing to do. An election in 2025 will be a Conservative win. CBC is on the brink of going away.

> I don't know about the french side, but english side of the CBC has been publishing an awful lot of political activism.

I wasn't aware of that. Do you have any example? From my understanding CBC and Radio-Canada are still by far the best and most neutral medias in Canada.

> Then again Quebec has CAQ and Bloc as representatives?

I'm not sure I understand what you mean. Can you elaborate a bit more?

> It has gotten to the point that Conservative party pretty much runs on defunding them. Detrimentally and they are aware of it, they don't care, it's the right thing to do. An election in 2025 will be a Conservative win. CBC is on the brink of going away.

This started under Harper and IMO is one of the worst things he's done to the country (although he made a lot of other terrible decisions). I really hope that, if 2025 is a conservative win, CBC will be left untouched.

>I wasn't aware of that. Do you have any example? From my understanding CBC and Radio-Canada are still by far the best and most neutral medias in Canada.

An excellent write up by Tara https://tarahenley.substack.com/p/speaking-freely?s=r

There's really too many examples. CBC publicly admitted they wont hire caucasians anymore. They have an official, ombudsman confirmed, position that racism against white people is not possible.

Microaggressions, etc etc. Hell even an article says you must get consent to hug your own 2 year old.

There was an article in Urdu, no english translation available. When you translate it, it basically said canadians are stealing pakistani babies. The government then when this comes out bans adoptions from muslim countries.

How about the endless examples of fake news. They themselves were selling 'white power' tshirts and wrote articles about how white supremacy in Canada is out of control. Then other media realized the guy who was selling the shirts works for the CBC. Then suddenly it was just a social experiment.

Then again... they were calling for the denazification of the freedom protest. CBC full frame dslr photographers just happened to know where a nazi flag was in ottawa and followed them through the day. Generally speaking they labelled a ton of punjabi truckers as white supremacists. Who thought it was hilarious.

>This started under Harper and IMO is one of the worst things he's done to the country (although he made a lot of other terrible decisions). I really hope that, if 2025 is a conservative win, CBC will be left untouched.

Scheer and Otoole ran on defunding the CBC. Pierre Poillivre looks like he has leadership in the bag and is quite public about defunding the CBC.

Let's also discuss the elephant in the room. Trudeau will have been in power for 10 years in 2025. 3 more years of corruption and scandal coming, assuming the NDP continue to support him. He already lost last election. He currently has the weakest government in history. His confidence push on emergency act forced Jagmeet's hands. Jagmeet compares himself to Jack Layton and Tommy Douglas but that is so beyond offensive. This coalition they have is also quite unpopular, but it's the only way either of them stay in power.

Though in their coalition agreement they were quite clear about significant changes to how our elections work, including making election day 3 days long.

The CBC will be getting defunded so long as the election isn't rigged.

Then again smearing the protest as a bunch of racists and then crushing the peaceful protest and further removing our rights? Never actually addressing the reason for the protest, just continued restrictions on our rights?

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/canada-help-offset-fo...

There's a known factor: https://www.businessinsider.com/ukraine-russia-bread-food-pr...

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2015/08/22/the-arab-spring...

If Trudeau is predicting correctly that we are going to have food shortages. He better address this unjustified use of the emergency act and give us a roadmap of returning our rights.

Otherwise, when the weather is nice and people are getting a bit hungry... they'll be heading to Ottawa.

A fairly significant part of the Arab world would likely have a problem with Al Jazeera (funded by the Qatar state) being named as their sole newspaper of record.

What would the Arab world recommend instead?

I guess my point was that "the Arab world" is diverse enough politically (and geographically) to not be able to be covered by a single newspaper. AJ gives you Qatar's perspective, but Saudi Arabia, UAE and Egypt have had strong differences with Qatar recently so coverage of some issues will be very different between AJ and those countries' news media. And even aside from bias, AJ is naturally going to be stronger on Gulf issues than it is on North Africa.

You're completely right. That was reductive of me. I'd probably edit my comment, but I don't think I can now. Thanks for the feedback.

Which is an alternative international newspaper of record for the Arab world?

That's completely fair. I don't live there so am not aware of the best newspapers, but Al Jazeera is internationally renowned for the quality of its journalism.

Al Jazeera Arabic is known to be much more biased/Qatar aligned than Al Jazeera English.

The same seems to be true for SCMP - I read SCMP in Beijing and was shocked by how different it was.

Spain: https://english.elpais.com/

newest article in Spain section there is from more than one month ago, I would not call that news source on Spain, even day old would be pretty lazy for English edition, but this seems to be pretty dead for someone interested in Spain

not exactly sure whether "prominent", but The Local (.com and their local variants) covers big part of Europe

Slovakia: Slovak Spectator (independent) https://spectator.sme.sk

NewsNow - official Slovak news agency TASR, less prominent but should cover all events in English for free https://newsnow.tasr.sk

Czechia: Czech radio (gov owned/propaganda) https://english.radio.cz

Czech Daily seems better for Czechia, though less prominent https://czechdaily.cz

Hungary: Hungary Today https://hungarytoday.hu

It would make more sense to read local news sites (CZ - idnes.cz novinky.cz cnn.iprima.cz SK - pravda.sk tvnoviny.sk teraz.sk) via Google Translate.

> Czechia: Czech radio (gov owned/propaganda) https://english.radio.cz

State-owned implies governmental editorial control and is common in countries with less media freedoms (RT for example).

Czech radio (as is the case in most countries in Europe) is a public broadcaster and the government shouldn't have editorial control.

it doesn't, but their agenda it's very clear, very anti previous gov in favor of current gov ignoring many things running own agenda in line with current gov

France: Le Monde Diplomatique[0]

[0]:https://mondediplo.com/

For US Id say it's NYT/WSJ. The post has middling circulation (~1/4 of WSJ and ~1/2 of NYT) and is not as well regarded as it used to be, esp. after the sale to Bezos. Meanwhile, USA Today has the highest distribution, but not is not nearly as respected as NYT/WSJ.

I think Politico.eu is also pretty good for EU coverage. Headquartered in Brussels, Belgium with additional offices in London, Berlin, Paris.

To qualify, politico.eu is pretty good for news about the EU, as in the EU institutions and EU politics

I'm not sure I'd suggest it for general purpose news about EU member states. It has some stuff but it's not really their focus

Bangladesh: Dhaka Tribune (https://www.dhakatribune.com)

New Zealand is a little complicated, but stuff.co.nz is probably the largest web outlet (which is associated with some of the most well known newspapers e.g., The Dominion Post).

For UK - Economist

Not a newspaper

It’s a series of articles that are delivered to your house once a week. That’s close enough.

They call themselves a newspaper, though they strain the definition, I think.

For historical reasons the Economist is still commonly called a newspaper. https://www.economist.com/frequently-asked-questions

Huh, TIL!

Israel: Haaretz. Left-liberal, considered the newspaper of record.

americas quarterly is a good publication for latin america https://www.americasquarterly.org/

Germany's DW

that's state funded (EU) propaganda on par with RT

you are better off with The Local or even Spiegel than DW

https://www.thelocal.de https://www.spiegel.de/international/

I find a lot of the English language media in countries that isn't majority English language speaking tends to be slanted in a snobbishly upper middle class or otherwise elitist direction. It's also difficult to find trustworthy publications in countries with less free media environments than US/Canada/Australia/etc. (SCMP for example does little to "speak truth to power" these days.) One of my tricks is to look at big corruption exposés like Panama Papers and then see which regional media reported on those topics[0].

Wikipedia in general is a decent source for clicking through lists of media in different countries[1], although bear in mind that some countries have better online news sites that aren't technically newspapers but do publish a lot of written content.

I am not aware of a full list of English language only papers, although it would be useful to have one. Usually when I am interested in a regional story I do the Wikipedia dance to find a couple of local outlets that are reporting on it. For getting alerted to the story in the first place it's good to subscribe to some global-oriented newsletters like the one from The Guardian's Global Development section, or Proximities[2] on Substack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers#Participating_m...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_newspapers

[2] https://proximities.substack.com/

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