Labels such as 'liberal' and 'conservative' are subjective, but newspapers and news magazines have a choice in both how they report events and where they position them, signaling to readers the relative importance of a particular event in the news cycle. You can tell a lot about a news publication's political leanings from what they publish; where they place the event (front page or buried on page 12); and which editorial columns they choose to run, among other criteria.
Leans Liberal | Moderate | Leans Conservative | |
Selected Newspapers
*The editorial positions of most newspapers in 2016 was either to endorse Clinton or refrain from endorsing anyone. |
New York Times Boston Globe Washington Post San Francisco Chronicle Los Angeles Times The Baltimore Sun The Sacramento Bee The Charlotte Observer Tampa Bay Times Bangor Daily News Hartford Courant The Denver Post The Seattle Times St. Louis Post-Dispatch The Plain Dealer Detroit Free Press |
USA Today | Chicago Tribune Houston Chronicle New York Daily News The New York Post The Las Vegas Review-Journal The Dallas Morning News The Wall Street Journal Richmond Times-Dispatch New Hampshire Union Leader The Detroit News Santa Barbara News-Press Arkansas Democrat-Gazette The Des Moines Register The Oklahoman Northwest Herald Boston Herald Fort Worth Star-Telegram The Herald-Dispatch (W. VA) Las Vegas Review-Journal The Tennessean The Washington Times The News-Sentinel Savannah Morning News Bowling Green Daily News St. Joseph News-Press |
News Magazines | The American Prospect Foreign Policy Harper's Magazine Mother Jones The Nation The New Republic The New Yorker The Progressive Time Wired Magazine Commentary |
The American Interest The Atlantic Bloomberg Business week Columbus Monthly Foreign Affairs Harvard Political Review Journal of Politics & Society The Week |
The American The American Conservative The American Spectator The Blaze (Libertarian) Cato Journal City Journal Human Events The Independent Review (Libertarian) The National Interest National Review The New American Newsweek Policy Review Reason (Libertarian) Regulation (Libertarian) Townhall Magazine The Weekly Standard World (Christian) World Affairs |
This is an abbreviated list culled from various sources. For more information see