🗺️ The outlet map as it stood on Wednesday, November 11, 2026, an issue kept each week. The latest · every issue

🗺️ The outlet map

Every outlet we read on enough of our stories, placed by which stories it covers: outlets close together run the same stories. Each dot is in the outlet's AllSides lean color, white when it isn't rated. The second view places them by how they word them: how close their stories and words are to the AP's and Reuters', and how heated their headlines are.

💡 The first axis isn't left against right. Across, it runs from business, tech and world news to the political fight, and the partisan outlets of both sides sit together at the fight's end: they cover the same fight. Left and right part on the second axis: crime and immigration stories at the bottom, stories critical of Trump at the top.

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← business, tech and worldthe political fight →↑ stories critical of Trump↓ crime and immigration← its own agenda and wordsclose to AP and Reuters →↑ heated wording↓ calm wording
83 outlets with at least 20 of our stories and 100 headlines in the 28 days to Nov 10, 7 PM ET. Placed by which of 1169 stories each ran (the stories at least three of them ran): outlets that ran the same stories sit close together. The map shows the two biggest ways they differ, so two outlets close together here can still differ in others. The ratings place no one; they only decide which way round the map is drawn.

👆 Point at or tap a dot for its outlet's card; click to keep it open.

🔧 How the map is made

🗞️ Which stories it covers: a correspondence analysis of outlets × stories (did the outlet run the story or not). The two axes drawn hold 5.2% and 3.8% of the differences between outlets. The maths leaves each axis' direction open, so the lean ratings set it: the end where outlets rated far left or far right gather is to the right, the end where left-rated ones gather is up.

🌶️ How it words them: across, the average rank among these outlets of the share of its stories a wire also ran, how near its headlines are to the wire's on those stories, and its vocabulary; up, the average rank of its loaded words, combat verbs, sensational words, anger and labels.

🏷️ The types: Ward clusters on about fifty measures of what outlets do, each group of measures weighted alike. A type is shown when it holds together: sorted again a hundred times with a fifth of the outlets left out at random, it comes back at least three-quarters the same on average (clusterwise Jaccard). An outlet is given its type only when at least two of the three outlets it behaves most like share it, and a type named for a side only when it's rated on that side or not rated.

🎯 The beats: independent component analysis of the same outlets × stories table, which looks for groups of stories that rise together in a few outlets rather than for the directions of most difference. A beat is shown when it comes back in at least four of five reruns (each with a new start and a fifth of the stories left out) and when its ten defining stories' labels are closer in meaning than 95% of random sets of our stories: an outlet that ran few of our stories always stands apart, so that alone isn't a beat. Its name is a topic most of its stories share, or the stories themselves.

🧲 The stories that pull each way

An outlet that runs these stories is drawn toward that end of the map. Each story's color says whose outlets ran it more: the share of the left-rated outlets on the map that ran it against the share of the right-rated ones. Hover or tap a story for both shares; click one to open its page.

💼 business, tech and world

the stories that pull outlets this way hardest, first; the bar is how many outlets on the map ran it

  1. ⚖️ Meta introduces new nonvoting stock class to fund AI spending 18 of 83
  2. ⚖️ Anthropic's IPO faces tempered expectations as growth slows 12 of 83
  3. ⚖️ Meta announces $95 billion stock offering to fund AI expansion 11 of 83
  4. 🫏 China's economy grows 4.5% in third quarter 10 of 83
  5. ⚖️ Apple reports stronger-than-expected revenue in first earnings report under new CEO John Ternus 11 of 83
  6. ⚖️ Microsoft stock rises on cloud revenue growth and earnings beat 6 of 83
  7. ⚖️ General Motors moves stock listing from NYSE to Nasdaq 10 of 83
  8. 🫏 Netflix reports Q3 revenue beat but warns of q4 slowdown and ad sales shortfall 11 of 83

🥊 the political fight

the stories that pull outlets this way hardest, first; the bar is how many outlets on the map ran it

  1. 🐘 Gavin Newsom says dsa will be mainstream in Democratic party 9 of 83
  2. 🐘 Abdul El-Sayed denies family ties to Muslim Brotherhood after relative's admission 12 of 83
  3. 🐘 ICE disputes 60 Minutes' deportation story with new details 8 of 83
  4. 🐘 JD Vance checks on woman who collapsed at rally, leads crowd in prayer 10 of 83
  5. ⚖️ Abdul El-Sayed wins Michigan Senate race 53 of 83
  6. 🫏 Supreme Court rules against Trump's voter suppression claims 6 of 83
  7. 🐘 Two arrested after car crash near White House 23 of 83
  8. ⚖️ Lauren boebert's campaign investigates unusual voting patterns in tight race 10 of 83

🔍 stories critical of Trump

the stories that pull outlets this way hardest, first; the bar is how many outlets on the map ran it

  1. ⚖️ General Motors moves stock listing from NYSE to Nasdaq 10 of 83
  2. ⚖️ Microsoft stock rises on cloud revenue growth and earnings beat 6 of 83
  3. 🫏 CoreWeave's debt crisis spurs AI market concerns 11 of 83
  4. ⚖️ Republicans face challenges in 2028 presidential race after midterm losses 83 of 83
  5. ⚖️ Anthropic's IPO faces tempered expectations as growth slows 12 of 83
  6. ⚖️ Fed officials signal possible half-point rate hike amid Rising inflation 8 of 83
  7. ⚖️ Voters rejected data centers in many local elections 33 of 83
  8. 🫏 Midterm results mark decline of Trump and Maga 12 of 83

🚔 crime and immigration

the stories that pull outlets this way hardest, first; the bar is how many outlets on the map ran it

  1. 🫏 Rays and Guardians split ALCS games 6 of 83
  2. ⚖️ Helicopter crash near Miami leaves 1 dead 2 injured 14 of 83
  3. ⚖️ ALCS Game 4 postponed due to rain, series resumes Saturday 9 of 83
  4. ⚖️ 71-year-old man killed by 12-foot alligator while fishing in Florida 12 of 83
  5. ⚖️ Texas man charged with murder aboard cruise ship 18 of 83
  6. ⚖️ Chiefs sign former all-pro kicker Tucker to practice squad 11 of 83
  7. ⚖️ Detroit Lions linebacker Jack Campbell reports full lower-body movement after neck injury 16 of 83
  8. ⚖️ TWO college students found dead after hiking trip 9 of 83

🏷️ Outlet types

Outlets sorted into types by what they do on their front pages, not by any rating: which stories they run and when, beside whom, how close to the wires, how they word their headlines, how often they rewrite them. Outlets shade into each other more than they fall into islands, so a type is shown only when it holds together each time we sort them again; among the big mainstream outlets the finer types don't, so those carry only the broad family, named for what it isn't. A "partisan web" is one side's own outlets, running the same fight-heavy stories as each other.

The most heated first: 🌶️ the bar is how heated the type's middle outlet words its headlines (its percentile among the outlets on the map); 📡 the second, how close it is to the AP and Reuters. Hover or tap a type for what it does and its outlets.

  1. 🚨 Right partisan web 83rd heat 24th wire 11 outlets
  2. 📢 Left partisan web 77th heat 20th wire 9 outlets
  3. 💭 Left opinion 77th heat 20th wire 9 outlets
  4. 🏘️ Outside the partisan webs 29th heat 77th wire 39 outlets

🎯 Beats

Where the map gives two broad directions, these are single outlets' own agendas: groups of our stories that one outlet or a few ran far more than the rest did. A beat is shown when it comes back each time we look again with part of the stories left out, and when its stories hang together; outlets with no beat of their own aren't listed. Hover or tap a beat for its stories.

  1. 🎯 politics Vox MSNBC · shared with The Atlantic, Mother Jones, Talking Points Memo, PJ Media, The Daily Signal 2 outlets
  2. 🎯 politics Salon · shared with New York Magazine, Talking Points Memo, MSNBC, The Daily Kos, The Daily Signal 1 outlet
  3. 🎯 politics The Federalist · shared with The Daily Kos, The Daily Signal, PJ Media, The Blaze, Star Tribune 1 outlet

📋 Every outlet on the map

📡 Wire: closer to the AP and Reuters than this share of the outlets here. 🌶️ Heat: more heated wording than this share. Click a heading to sort.

OutletType 📡 Wire🌶️ Heat
ABC News 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 76 15
AP 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 📡 a wire 13
Alternet 🫏 no settled type 0 98
The American Conservative 🐘 no settled type 46 50
The Atlantic 🫏 no settled type 4 52
Axios 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 56 49
BBC ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 80 33
The Blaze 🐘 Right partisan web 23 89
Bloomberg ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 70 16
Breitbart 🐘 Right partisan web 51 72
Business Insider 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 41 10
CBS News 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 79 21
CNBC 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 85 4
CNN 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 89 55
Chicago Tribune ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 96 7
Crooks and Liars Left opinion 10 96
The Daily Beast 🫏 no settled type 2 100
The Daily Caller 🐘 Right partisan web 27 71
The Daily Kos 🫏 Left opinion 29 87
The Daily Signal 🐘 no settled type 57 57
The Daily Wire 🐘 Right partisan web 34 83
The Economist 🫏 no settled type 9 34
The Epoch Times 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 84 17
The Federalist 🐘 Right partisan web 12 82
Financial Times ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 82 37
Forbes ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 55 40
Foreign Policy ⚖️ no settled type 43 27
Fortune ⚖️ no settled type 44 54
Fox Business 🐘 no settled type 50 65
Fox News 🐘 no settled type 30 73
The Gateway Pundit 🐘 Right partisan web 32 94
The Guardian 🫏 no settled type 68 63
The Hill ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 54 48
HuffPost 🫏 no settled type 83 85
The Independent 🫏 no settled type 45 68
Independent Journal Review 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 95 0
Just the News 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 77 41
Los Angeles Times 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 74 22
MSNBC 🫏 Left opinion 20 74
MarketWatch ⚖️ no settled type 33 9
Mediaite 🫏 no settled type 22 95
Military.com 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 93 18
Mother Jones 🫏 Left opinion 28 77
NBC News 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 98 45
NPR 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 94 11
The National Desk 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 73 44
The New Republic 🫏 Left opinion 26 93
New York Magazine 🫏 Left opinion 6 70
New York Post 🐘 no settled type 38 76
New York Times 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 72 38
News Nation ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 78 29
Newsmax 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 90 56
Newsweek ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 49 61
One America News Network 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 52 23
PBS NewsHour 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 100 12
PJ Media 🐘 Right partisan web 15 79
The Post Millennial 🐘 Right partisan web 48 80
Punchbowl News no settled type 1 6
Radio Free Europe Radio Liberty no settled type 37 32
Raw Story 🫏 no settled type 5 99
Reason ⚖️ no settled type 39 62
Red State 🐘 Right partisan web 18 88
Reuters ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 📡 a wire 1
Rolling Stone 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 35 30
Salon 🫏 Left opinion 21 78
Scripps News ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 99 28
Semafor 🫏 no settled type 61 2
Star Tribune 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 66 20
Straight Arrow News ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 88 26
The Sun 🐘 no settled type 11 90
Talking Points Memo Left opinion 17 67
Tampa Bay Times ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 63 5
Time 🫏 no settled type 71 24
Townhall 🐘 Right partisan web 16 84
USA Today 🫏 no settled type 60 35
Vox 🫏 Left opinion 7 66
The Wall Street Journal ⚖️ Outside the partisan webs 67 46
Washington Examiner 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 59 60
The Washington Post 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 62 39
The Washington Sun Outside the partisan webs 65 43
The Washington Times 🐘 Outside the partisan webs 87 51
The Western Journal 🐘 Right partisan web 24 91
Yahoo News 🫏 Outside the partisan webs 91 59

From the study of Oct 27-28, rebuilt each day from the last 28 days; the methods log has the details. Outlets the site doesn't build stories from (most outlets outside the US and the UK) aren't on the map.

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