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No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Alden Global Capital / MediaNews Group A private investment owner associated with MediaNews Group and major local-newspaper acquisitions. Alden scores as a low calibration anchor because financial extraction from local news directly undermines civic information infrastructure. newspaper-chain owner and hedge fund
FMALIGNANT-4 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Associated Press A nonprofit news cooperative supplying global news reporting, photos, video, election data, and wire services. Associated Press scores as one of the stronger major news institutions because broad informational utility is paired with a cooperative, non-shareholder structure. nonprofit news cooperative
BQUALIFIED43 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Axel Springer A major transatlantic digital publishing company owning Politico, Business Insider, Bild, Welt, StepStone, and other assets. It has important journalism assets, but private ownership, ideological influence, and media-platform consolidation keep it low-mid. digital publishing and news company
DEXTRACTIVE15 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Axios A digital news company focused on politics, business, technology, local newsletters, and short-form explanatory reporting, owned by Cox Enterprises. It can be clear and useful, but access-journalism incentives and private media ownership keep it mid-spectrum. digital news company
DEXTRACTIVE22 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge BBC The United Kingdom’s public-service broadcaster, producing news, education, entertainment, radio, and global reporting. It provides major public value, but state-charter politics and institutional neutrality theater make it less clean than its public-service image suggests. public-service broadcaster
CPERFORMATIVE40 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Bloomberg LP / Bloomberg News A private financial-data, terminal, media, and news company serving global business and markets audiences. Bloomberg is useful but elite-oriented infrastructure, built around expensive access and financial-market power. financial data and news company
DEXTRACTIVE25 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge CNN / Warner Bros. Discovery A global cable and digital news brand owned by Warner Bros. Discovery, producing television, streaming, and digital news coverage. CNN / Warner Bros. Discovery receives a low score because real reporting capacity sits inside cable-news incentives, conglomerate ownership, conflict amplification, and attention capture. cable and digital news network
DEXTRACTIVE20 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Condé Nast A private magazine and digital media publisher operating Vogue, The New Yorker, Wired, Vanity Fair, GQ, Bon Appétit, and other brands. It has real editorial and cultural value, but lifestyle identity capture and private ownership limit its public-good character. magazine and digital media publisher
DEXTRACTIVE22 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Daily Mail and General Trust A private media group associated with the Daily Mail, MailOnline, Metro, i, and related media assets. Daily Mail and General Trust scores low because tabloid attention economics and outrage incentives degrade the public sphere despite real reporting capacity. newspaper and media company
DEXTRACTIVE6 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Dow Jones / The Wall Street Journal A News Corp-owned business news company operating The Wall Street Journal, Barron’s, MarketWatch, and related data/news products. It has high information value for markets and business, but paywalls and News Corp control make it an elite-serving institution. business news and newspaper company
DEXTRACTIVE25 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Financial Times A global business newspaper and digital news organization owned by Nikkei. It is serious and useful journalism, but its elite paywall and market orientation mean it serves power more readily than the general public. business newspaper and digital news organization
DEXTRACTIVE33 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Forbes A business media brand and magazine publisher known for business news, contributor networks, rankings, and lists. It has some useful business journalism, but status worship, rankings, contributor incentives, and brand licensing make it structurally suspect. business media and magazine company
DEXTRACTIVE12 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Fox Corporation / Fox News A public media company controlled by the Murdoch family, operating Fox News, Fox broadcast assets, sports, and streaming properties. Fox scores low because concentrated family media power and outrage incentives create broad public-sphere harm. broadcast and cable news company
FMALIGNANT-3 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Gannett / USA Today Network A large public newspaper chain operating USA Today and many local newspapers across the United States. It preserves some local-news capacity, but chain ownership and cost-cutting make the institution structurally weak for communities. newspaper chain
DEXTRACTIVE10 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Gray Media A public media company operating local television stations and digital news properties across many U.S. markets. Gray Media provides local-news infrastructure, but shareholder control, station consolidation, advertising dependence, and user-tracking practices keep it in the low-scoring commercial-broadcast tier. public local television and digital media company
DEXTRACTIVE8 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
G No vegan or vegetarian badge Hearst A private diversified media company owning newspapers, magazines, television interests, and business information services. It has real publishing assets, but private conglomerate control limits public accountability across many cultural channels. private media, magazine, newspaper, and data company
DEXTRACTIVE10 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Lee Enterprises A public local-newspaper company operating many U.S. local news brands. It provides civic information, but public-chain economics make local accountability vulnerable to debt, cuts, and shareholder pressure. newspaper chain
DEXTRACTIVE11 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Los Angeles Times A major California newspaper and digital news organization owned by Patrick Soon-Shiong. It produces important regional journalism, but billionaire ownership and newsroom volatility make the institution too dependent on private patronage. major regional newspaper
DEXTRACTIVE21 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge McClatchy A local-news company operating newspapers and digital outlets in U.S. regional markets. It keeps important regional journalism alive, but ownership instability and newsroom contraction weaken its public-service role. newspaper chain
DEXTRACTIVE9 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Nant Capital / Patrick Soon-Shiong The private owner-control structure behind the Los Angeles Times under Patrick Soon-Shiong and Nant Capital. It preserves a major regional newsroom, but the civic information function remains exposed to individual-owner dependence and family influence risk. private newspaper holding company and individual owner
DEXTRACTIVE12 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Nash Holdings / Jeff Bezos The private holding structure through which Jeff Bezos owns The Washington Post. It preserves a major newsroom outside a public media conglomerate, but editorial civic infrastructure remains dependent on one billionaire owner rather than democratic, worker, reader, or public-interest control. private newspaper holding company and individual owner
DEXTRACTIVE12 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge NBC News / MSNBC A Comcast/NBCUniversal news organization operating NBC News, MSNBC, TODAY, and digital/video news products. It produces major reporting, but cable politics and conglomerate entertainment ownership create serious incentives toward attention capture. broadcast and cable news organization
DEXTRACTIVE17 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
G No vegan or vegetarian badge News Corp A public media conglomerate controlling Dow Jones, The Wall Street Journal, HarperCollins, News UK, and other publishing/news assets. News Corp scores as a low parent-company anchor because concentrated family media power shapes news, books, and politics at once. public publishing and news conglomerate
DEXTRACTIVE0 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Nexstar Media Group A public broadcaster operating local television stations, NewsNation, The Hill, The CW, WGN Radio, and digital advertising properties. Nexstar has real local-news utility, but national consolidation, retransmission leverage, centralized ownership, and advertising/data practices make it a weak institutional steward. public local television, national news, and broadcast company
DEXTRACTIVE4 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Nikkei A Japanese media group that owns the Financial Times and publishes business, economic, and market information. Its journalism has high public-information value, but the parent still represents concentrated media and business-information power rather than public or reader governance. private employee-owned media group
DEXTRACTIVE26 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge NPR A nonprofit public-radio network producing national and international journalism, podcasts, and cultural programming. NPR scores above commercial broadcast news because its nonprofit structure reduces direct attention-market pressure, though funding dependence and centralized institutional culture limit the score. nonprofit public-radio news network
BQUALIFIED43 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Politico A political news company owned by Axel Springer, covering policy, elections, lobbying, and government. Politico is useful for political insiders, but its access-centered market makes it more an elite operating system than democratic public media. political news company
DEXTRACTIVE18 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge ProPublica A nonprofit investigative newsroom publishing public-interest accountability journalism. ProPublica scores as an A-level news anchor because the work is aimed directly at making powerful institutions more answerable. nonprofit investigative newsroom
AGOOD55 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Reuters A global news agency owned by Thomson Reuters, providing business, politics, markets, and general news. It has high reporting value, but private ownership and business-information markets keep it below nonprofit or cooperative news models. global news agency
DEXTRACTIVE34 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
G No vegan or vegetarian badge Sinclair Broadcast Group A public broadcaster owning or operating many local television stations across the United States. Sinclair scores weakly because local trust is leveraged through centralized ownership and political messaging power. local television station owner
FMALIGNANT-1 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
b No vegan or vegetarian badge Street Roots A Portland nonprofit newspaper, vendor-income program, and resource-guide publisher that creates income opportunities for people experiencing homelessness and poverty while producing local accountability journalism. It scores this way because its anti-poverty vendor model and civic journalism are stronger than ordinary media retail, while governance remains nonprofit-board mediated rather than directly worker or vendor controlled. nonprofit street newspaper and resource guide
AGOOD56 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge TEGNA A public media company operating local television stations, digital news products, multicast networks, and Premion advertising technology. TEGNA keeps some local-news value but remains constrained by shareholder ownership, ad-tech monetization, and consolidation pressure in local broadcast markets. public local television and digital advertising company
DEXTRACTIVE9 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge The Atlantic A magazine and digital media company publishing essays, reporting, criticism, politics, culture, and audio. It has high editorial value, but elite subscriber economics and private ownership keep it from being broad public infrastructure. magazine and digital media company
DEXTRACTIVE24 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge The E.W. Scripps Company A public media company operating local television stations, Scripps News, ION, Court TV, and other broadcast or streaming networks. Scripps has stronger public-service journalism signals than many commercial peers, but shareholder governance, advertising economics, and platform data practices prevent a high score. public local television, news, and broadcast-network company
DEXTRACTIVE9 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge The Economist Group A media and business-intelligence group publishing The Economist and related analysis, events, and research services. It has strong analytical value, but its elite institutional worldview and private ownership make its public-interest posture partial. magazine and business-intelligence publisher
DEXTRACTIVE28 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge The Guardian A global news organization owned by the Scott Trust, with reader-revenue and open-access journalism. The Guardian scores well among major news organizations because trust ownership and open access reduce investor pressure, even while editorial and ideology risks remain. trust-owned news organization
BQUALIFIED45 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge The New York Times Company A public, family-controlled news and subscription company operating The New York Times, Wirecutter, The Athletic, Cooking, and related products. It produces serious journalism, but elite agenda-setting power, paywalls, and family/public-company control make it structurally ambivalent. public newspaper and digital subscription company
DEXTRACTIVE28 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge The Washington Post A major U.S. newspaper and digital news organization owned by Jeff Bezos through Nash Holdings. Its journalism can be important, but billionaire ownership makes public accountability too dependent on one private owner’s choices. major newspaper and digital news company
DEXTRACTIVE21 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Thomson Reuters A public information company that owns Reuters and sells legal, tax, risk, and investigative data products, including CLEAR. Reuters itself has public information value, but the parent also sells data infrastructure to law-enforcement and risk customers. public information, news, and legal-data company
DEXTRACTIVE8 tentative score
High confidence (AI) None found0
No special badge No vegan or vegetarian badge Vox Media A digital media company operating Vox, The Verge, New York Magazine, Eater, SB Nation, Vulture, and related brands. It often produces useful explanatory journalism, but venture-style digital media economics and layoffs weaken the institution behind the work. digital media company
DEXTRACTIVE16 tentative score
Medium confidence (AI) None found0