Search a selection of reliable news sources

Thiscustom Google Search engine searches mostlyperennialsources ofgenerally reliable ()journalism. It excludes sources rated asno consensus on reliability (or as unreliable) and excludes op-eds when possible. SeeWikipedia library for academic sources. Some sources have not been rated by the community, so please feel free to provide feedback and insight to the talk page if you feel that some should or should not be included.

• Wikipedia:Advanced source searching#Custom search engines for an overview of various niche search engines on Wikipedia
• Wikipedia:WikiProject Conservatism/References for a more focused version of this reliable search engine that aims to exclude left-leaning sources

I am no longer proactively updating this search engine given the limitations of Google programmable search (which seems to be getting worse somehow) and hope there will, within the next year, be an AI search assistant or another traditional search engine that will be better than anything I could do to improve upon this Google tool (please post on the talk page if you have found such a tool). As long as this search engine being used, I will try to respond to requests to clarify or otherwise fix the search engine.

Full list available in different formats onGithub

List of Opinion/op-eds, blogs, commentary, editorials, tags, author profiles and forums (also onGithub)

1. Can't filter to a specific time period when content was most reliable usingGoogle (Bing Custom Search API might be able to though...)
   1. CNET (before October 2020)
   2. ZDNET (before October 2020)
   3. Newsweek (before 2013)
   4. The Independent - concern by editors starting in March 2016, though very close to including anyway
   5. The Weekly Standard – US opinion magazine (1995–2018), the domain is inactive and redirects to an unreliable source, so the main issues is finding a domain to search (https://web.archive.org/web/20181231145630/https://www.weeklystandard.com/ did not work)
2. Confusing to differentiate between opinion (or low-quality information) and news, at least for beginners (looking for AI-assisted search tool that could enable the inclusion of the reliable content from these sources)
   1. Forbes (articles written by 'contributors' are unreliable)
   2. Jacobin - difficult to tell blog from article
   3. IGN - too many caveats to memorize
   4. Space.com (recommended to check qualifications of each author)
   5. Yahoo! News (aggregates news from a number of sources, including very unreliable ones)
3. Not reliable for all political topics
   1. ADL.org - not reliable for Israel/Palestine
   2. Business Insider - just reliable for culture
   3. HuffPost – American progressive news website
   4. The Jewish Chronicle - removed due to pre-2010 caveat and politics flags
   5. Kommersant – Russian daily newspaper
   6. Rolling Stone (magazine) – American monthly music magazinePages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets
   7. South China Morning Post – Hong Kong newspaper
   8. Sixth Tone – State-owned English-language online magazine in China
   9. TheWrap – American entertainment and media news website - not evaluated for reliability on politics (and includes significant politics coverage)
   10. Times of Israel - torn on this one because discussion seemed contentious on political questions and there are legitimate press freedom concerns. Open to feedback
4. To avoid explicit content ('safe search' is also turned on for this search engine)
   1. AVN (magazine) – American magazine covering adult entertainment
   2. Playboy – American lifestyle and entertainment magazine
5. Video Game-specific sites
   1. People Make Games - removed and suggested for inclusion on the customVideo game search engine (though YouTube might not be indexable like other sites)
6. Unclear whether it would be helpful:
   1. Aon (company) – Professional services firm - can't find weather-specific page
   2. Geographic Names Information System – Geographical database - useful in this kind of search engine?

(beyond the perennials sources with a)

1. Nature (not added - redundant toWikipedia Library), but nature.com/news is added
2. Science (not added - redundant toWikipedia Library)
3. The Lancet (not added - redundant toWikipedia Library)

1. Institute for Nonprofit News (seeTalk:Using INN membership for reliability discussions?)
2. Global Investigative Journalism Network (seeTalk:Should GIJN membership indicate general reliability?)
3. International Fact-checking network (English language sites added only toFact-checking search engine) SeeWP:IFCN for discussions on its general reliability in evaluating fact-checking sites
4. IPSO - early discussion indicates not enough for general reliability given inconsistent enforcement and many publications under this jurisdiction not deemed generally reliable by editors

1. Foreign Policy (added)
2. Foreign Affairs (added)
3. Ballotpedia (not added - too muchWP:False balance)

1. Poynter (added)
2. Columbia Journalism Review (added)
3. Nieman Lab (added)
4. Editor & Publisher (added - caution: many are press releases)
5. Current (added)
6. Tow Center for Digital Journalism (added)
7. American Press Institute (added)
8. Media and Journalism Research Center (added)

1. Chicago Tribune (added)
2. SF Chronicle (added)

1. List of public broadcasters by country (that are listed as having editorial independence from the government byState Media Monitor and have a Wikipedia article)
   1. English-language outlets (or sections) - included
      1. Australian Broadcasting Corporation (added)
      2. CBC (added)
      3. Jamaica Broadcasting Corporation (added)
      4. PBS (added)
      5. Channel Four Television Corporation (added)
      6. Special Broadcasting Service (added)
      7. Radio New Zealand (added)
      8. Television New Zealand (added)
      9. Pacific Media Network (added)
      10. Swissinfo bySwiss Broadcasting Corporation (added)
      11. Radio Slovenia International - byRTVSLO (added)
      12. Yleisradio (added)
      13. EFE (added)
      14. Radio France (added)
      15. France 24 (added) parent:France Médias Monde
      16. Arte (added)
      17. Eesti Rahvusringhääling (added)
   2. Not included (but would if there were an English section)
      1. ORF (broadcaster)
      2. S4C
      3. Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation
      4. Belgischer Rundfunk
      5. RTBF
      6. Vlaamse Radio- en Televisieomroeporganisatie
      7. Česká televize
      8. Czech Radio
      9. DR (broadcaster)
      10. https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_2_Danmark
      11. France Télévisions
      12. ARD (broadcaster)
      13. ZDF
      14. Latvian Television
      15. Lithuanian National Radio and Television
      16. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liechtensteinischer_Rundfunk
      17. Nederlandse Publieke Omroep (organization)
      18. RTCG
      19. NRK
      20. Rádio e Televisão de Portugal
      21. EITB
      22. Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals
      23. Valencian Media Corporation
      24. Radiotelevisión del Principado de Asturias
      25. Sveriges Radio
      26. Sveriges Television
      27. Swedish Educational Broadcasting Company

1. States Newsroom (96k+ articles republished, including by local NPR stations)

1. Update Templates (see above prototype of 'Search for expanded')
   1. Change WRS description from: 'a Google search that only searches sites vetted by Wikipedians.' to 'a Google search limited to hundreds of higher-quality sources' for:
      1. Template:Find sources (proposed)
      2. Template:Find sources multi
      3. Template:Find general sources
      4. Template:Find video game sources
2. Helping to updateWP:WRS (Wikipedia Reference Search - a custom google search engine embedded on many articles through templates)
   1. Submit xml files with sources to add and exclude

• Pages displaying short descriptions of redirect targets via Module:Annotated link