About Slantwise

Most news shows you a moment. Slantwise shows you the whole story.

What we do

Slantwise aggregates journalism from over 1,200 sources across the political and editorial spectrum. We pull their feeds, group coverage of the same story, and lay it out as a single timeline, so you can follow how a story started, how it developed, and who covered each turn.

We don't write articles. We don't editorialize. We don't decide which stories matter. That's your job. Ours is to make sure you can see everything.

How a story works

Every story on Slantwise is a single shared timeline. When a story takes a new turn, that turn becomes a development, dated by when coverage of it actually began. Under each development we show verbatim headlines from left, lean-left, center, lean-right, and right outlets that covered that moment.

We never write or summarize headlines. We select and attribute them. When a side has no headline under a development, that absence is the finding: it didn't cover that turn of the story.

Big stories rarely stay in one place. An investigation becomes a hearing; a hearing becomes a bill. When one story grows out of another, we link them into a single arc you can follow from where it began to where it stands now, so today's headline never arrives without its history.

What an arc's record shows

Every arc carries a record of who covered it. It reads left to right, one bar per week, from the earliest story we hold to the most recent. The height of a week is how many distinct viewpoints covered it among the outlets we track, and the colour is which side they were on.

Read across it and you can see what no single article shows: which sides were there at the start, which arrived late, which stopped, and which never came at all. When one side's colour thins out and the others continue, that is the finding.

What we are not

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Not a publisher. We do not write, edit, or commission journalism.
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Not politically aligned. We have no editorial position. We do not boost or bury stories based on politics.
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Not an arbiter of truth. We surface what journalists report. We do not add fact-check labels or suppress sources we disagree with.
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Not a social network. No comments. No likes. No algorithmic engagement traps.

Who runs it

Slantwise is independent. It is not owned by a media company, a political organization, or an investor group, and it has no newsroom. The source ratings come from published, independent research organizations, and the full methodology is public, so you can check our work instead of taking our word for it. Questions or corrections: support@slantwise.news.

How we're funded

Slantwise is funded by readers. Everything core is free, with no ads and no tracking-based advertising; readers who want to keep it running can become a supporter and get a few extras. We do not accept funding from news organisations, political parties, or ideological foundations. The rating methodology is published openly and is never for sale.