> Today the Guardian has offices in New York, Washington and Oakland, California, and further correspondents elsewhere: a team of more than a hundred editorial and commercial staff

From [1]

Oh hmm, what about it being the publication that Snowden trusted to handle his whistle-blowing properly, compared to the NYTimes that he didn't trust, because on the Bush Jr.'s White House's request, they suppressed publication of a news story about NSA wiretapping until after his reelection?

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/media/2021/may/05/guardian-200-y...

This intuition is largely fallacious. The quality of reporting can very so dramatically from one source to another that it's not particularly rare for a foreign outlet to do a better job than a domestic one. (no opinion on this specific case)

Why would anyone care where a publication originates, as long as it does real reporting?