Ground News
Ground News is a Canadian news aggregation service founded by Harleen Kaur and Sukh Singh in 2020. It functions as a news aggregator with an emphasis on eliminating political blind spots of its readers.
Background
Ground News was co-founded on January 15, 2020 by siblings Sukh Singh and Harleen Kaur, the latter of whom was a former engineer at NASA. Kaur and Singh are CEO and CTO respectively. The company states that it is staffed by 18 "media outsiders" and is headquartered in Ontario, Canada.Content
The stated goal of the service is to counteract media bias by displaying news events with sources from across the political spectrum. When a story is selected on Ground News, the user will see several outlets that have reported on the story labeled by their political leaning. Ground News follows a freemium model which allows users to view news as a guest, with a free account, or with a paid account.Ratings
The service marks every news source with a bias rating using terms borrowed from the left–right political spectrum. According to Ground News, sources on the far-left and far-right "use loaded words, publish misleading reports or leave out information" and are associated with the "most extreme party members."Both these ratings are averaged out from the ratings of three companies: AllSides, Media Bias/Fact Check, and Ad Fontes Media, who each have their own methods for determining factuality and bias. As examples, Ground News uses this method to rate CNN and the Associated Press as "left-leaning", and Fox News as "right-leaning".
While the bias ratings can be accessed with a free account, Ground News also provides factuality ratings behind a paywall.