Observed arrival · 2026-10-08
Whose News traces who owns the outlets you read
Look up a news outlet to follow its ownership chain, with a source linked at each step.
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- Readers checking who owns a news outlet
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- It reports 14,369 outlets with an owner sourced and 10,644 with no owner recorded; the latter does not mean independent.
Field notes
The homepage separates sourced ownership from missing ownership: it reports 14,369 outlets with an owner sourced and 10,644 without one recorded. It says the data comes from Wikidata and hand-checked public sources, and provides routes for corrections and source submissions. Headlines are also shown with an outlet and an ownership-chain link.
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