NEWS
SOURCES

As of November 2025, our most trusted news sources are the following and why. Unfortunately, this list is always in the state of flux as ownership changes over time and pressures come to bear. We refuse to get even entertainment ‘news’ from social media although 54% of adult Americans admit to receiving at least part of their news from social media.

First, we recommend Allsides which is a news gathering service which ranks the bias of all the “Balanced News & Perspective” published on its website. Makes it convenient to know upfront the slant of reporting. It also has apps available.
https://www.allsides.com/unbiased-balanced-news

For television reporting, we find NPR‘s reporting to be more centrist than any of the major networks and it is readily available on public TV. The credentials of their main journalists tend to be respectable. It also has a web presence.
https://www.npr.org

A personal favorite I check before all others every morning is WNG World News Group which is a Christian news organization that aims to produce news with a Biblically sound coverage of world, national and cultural daily news. For the limited budget and size of staff it is a remarkably versatile media. Podcasts, website, apps.
https://wgn.org

SmartNews is used by over 40 million for daily news and uses all popular services as sources with each article being credited by source. The benefit is breadth of coverage.
https://www.smartnews.com

We also use a couple of the old ‘wire’ services simply for broader coverage and that we like to see how the same event is covered by different sources. Currently, we read the online news from UPI United Press International and from Reuters both of which tend to be centrist.
https://www.upi.com
https://www.reuters.com