openDemocracy Competitors

Guardian News & Media (GNM) publishes theguardian.com, one of the world’s leading English-language newspaper websites. It also has a presence in the US and Australia as Guardian US and Guardian Australia. Traffic from outside of the UK now represents around two-thirds of the Guardian’s total digital audience. In the UK, GNM publishes the Guardian newspaper six days a week, first published in 1821. The Guardian is renowned for its agenda-setting journalism including, most recently the Cambridge Analytica, Paradise and Panama Papers investigations as well as the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy-winning NSA revelations.

Al Jazeera America is an American news channel broadcasting unbiased, fact-based, in-depth journalism that gets you closer to the people at the heart of the news. Al Jazeera America has one of the largest newsgathering capabilities of any organization in the United States with 12 bureaus in major cities around the country, 3 broadcast centers, and access to more than 70 of Al Jazeera Media Network's bureaus around the world.

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