The news, reported. Not argued.

Open any story on Crossfiled. It groups one event across every outlet that covered it and lists each version in the order it was filed, with the headline, the outlet and a link to the original. You can see who broke it, who followed and how each newsroom framed it, side by side.

Yes, one that compares sources rather than just listing them. Most aggregators show you articles. Crossfiled shows you events, each with every outlet that reported it, and it hosts none of the journalism: every headline links to the newsroom that did the work.

No. We publish no political lean ratings, because we are not in a position to grade anybody's politics. What we show instead is observable: which outlets covered a story and which did not, who filed first, and whether a source is a wire, a newsroom or an opinion outlet.

Every story page lists the outlets that covered it. Every outlet page lists what that outlet covered and what it did not, stated as an observation rather than an accusation, since an outlet may be working a different angle or filing later. Browse the outlets.

The scoreboard ranks outlets by how often they were first to a story that more than one newsroom covered, using text filings only and an adjusted rate, so a handful of lucky early filings cannot top the table. See the scoreboard.

It is free and paid for by advertising. You do not need an account to read it.