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Best News Sources

10 Journalism Brands Where You Find Real Facts Rather Than Alternative Facts

(Note: many of these online news sources allow you to view a minimum of articles before you hit a pay wall).

New York Times
Wall Street Journal
Washington Post
British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)
The Economist
The New Yorker
Wire Services: The Associated Press, Reuters, Bloomberg News
Foreign Affairs
The Atlantic
Politico

Runner Ups:

National Public Radio (NPR)
TIME magazine
The Christian Science Monitor
The Los Angeles Times (and many other regional, metropolitan daily newspapers)
USA Today
CNN
NBC News
CBS News
ABC News

Sources of reporting and opinion from the right of the political spectrum:

National Review
The Weekly Standard

Sources of reporting and opinion from the left of the political spectrum:

The New Republic
The Nation

Glader, P. (2017, February 1). 10 journalism brands where you find real facts rather than alternative facts (opens in a new window). Forbes.

Fact Checkers

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"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored." ~ Aldous Huxley

AllSides
AllSides provides multiple different views of the same story which allows for a much rounder picture of the subject. Instead of just news from the right or left, AllSides covers every side, including the middle.
BBC Reality Check
"The fact-checking arm of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC)."
The Dispatch Fact-Check
"Welcome to the Dispatch Fact Check. Our mission is to identify and correct errors of fact, misstatements, misinformation and outright disinformation that make their way into the news stories and social media feeds every day, to the detriment of our national discourse."
FactCheck.org
From the Annenburg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania. "We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics. We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews and news releases. Our goal is to apply the best practices of both journalism and scholarship, and to increase public knowledge and understanding."
Hoaxy
Hoaxy visualizes the spread of claims and related fact checking online. A claim may be a fake news article, hoax, rumor, conspiracy theory, satire, or even an accurate report. Anyone can use Hoaxy to explore how claims spread across social media. You can select any matching fact-checking articles to observe how those spread as well.
Lead Stories
"Lead Stories is a fact checking website that is always looking for the latest false, deceptive or inaccurate stories (or media) making the rounds on the internet."
The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc.
Internationally respected school of journalism fact-checking page
RealClearPolitics
Fact-checkers of the fact-checkers
Reuters Fact-Check
"Reuters, the news and media division of Thomson Reuters, is the world’s largest multimedia news provider, reaching billions of people worldwide every day. Reuters provides business, financial, national and international news to professionals via desktop terminals, the world's media organizations, industry events and directly to consumers."