Crosswire

Crosswire shows how the world media covers the same day. It places the live front pages of major news outlets side by side: choose a country to open its leading outlets together, or use a Left, Center, Right preset to read a left-leaning, a centrist and a right-leaning title in parallel and compare framing, emphasis and story selection. Coverage spans 186 countries and 907 outlets, from newspapers of record and public broadcasters to business dailies and digital-native outlets. Every outlet has its own page with a description, a live front-page preview and its approximate Crosswire grouping. Front pages are fetched live server-side, never cached, and rendered consistently: character encoding is detected so non-Latin scripts display correctly. An interactive 3D globe makes country selection fast, automatic country detection takes you straight to local sources, and the interface translates into 16 languages. Crosswire is free, needs no account, and keeps advertising away from the journalism. Available on the web, iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android phones, tablets and Chromebooks. Built by Nexo Apex SL, Spain.

What problem it solves

The same event can lead one front page and barely appear on another. Crosswire makes differences in framing, emphasis and story selection across countries and the political spectrum immediately visible, in one minimalist view.

Alternatives & competitors

AllSides, Media Bias/Fact Check, Newseum front pages, Google News, Ground News