Updated April 20, 2026
AllSides provides balanced news to help you to get the full story, spot media bias and misinformation, avoid partisan manipulation, and think for yourself.
Our editorial team’s primary goals are to:
- Offer you more perspectives and context than other news sources
- Reveal stories that are outside your bubble but are important to the nation or other communities
- Highlight bias, misinformation, or diverse viewpoints in coverage of major stories and issues
What Are Headline Roundups?
Headline Roundups show you headlines side-by-side and summarize the different context and perspectives on the issue.
By showing a swath of coverage from different sources, you’ll see information you may have missed or notice how journalists and commentators spin, slant or sensationalize an issue.
An individual Roundup usually takes one of three forms:
- Today’s Headlines: how top stories of the day were covered across the political spectrum
- Conflicting Reports: when sources are reporting different “truths”
- Diverse Viewpoints: when there’s a wide range of opinions on an issue, especially when the views are underrepresented in media
Sometimes, the three articles we choose are all news reports. Sometimes, all three are analysis pieces or op-eds. We try not to cross-compare these — news is compared to other news, and opinions are compared to other opinions.
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We might want to show how different sides of the news media are covering a particular subject, or we might want to show how different sides of the political aisle are thinking about and/or acting on it. The Roundup is useful in both situations.
The AllSides news team — made up of news specialists who have biases across the political spectrum — curates and writes Headline Roundups every day. This small group is politically balanced and has members who identify as being on the left, right, and center.
We know you have a wide range of interests. But we also believe that what might be the most important information for you to know isn’t always what’s most clickable, viral or “interesting.”
With that in mind, our daily news team covers big national news that's being covered across the spectrum, but also niche perspectives and specific examples of bias or underrepresentation. The goal is to make you more informed, more engaged in the civic process, and more prepared to interpret and interact with viewpoints that differ from your own.
While we provide balanced news, we believe everyone is biased — including us. It is important to be transparent about bias, so we spell out some of our focus in our Editorial Philosophy. We typically focus or shine light on:
- political news;
- voices often ignored;
- news with contrasting coverage;
- news with mutual support or common themes across divides;
- stories on polarization and media bias;
- free speech and civil discourse.
Sometimes we cover something that’s big news in one specific “news orbit,” but not big in others. Though it might not be big news everywhere, we’ll still cover it to make sure you get the full picture and round out your understanding of the issue at hand.
Our thousands of AllSides Media Bias Ratings allow us to easily represent how opposite sides of the media are discussing or framing a subject while also highlighting interesting, polarizing or underrepresented points of view.
If only one source or voice out of many is advancing a certain narrative, we might make note of it, but we’ll also avoid representing an entire side of the media with a single outlier.
There are times when a story hasn’t been covered at all by one side of the media, but is being covered a lot by another side. In this case, we’ll sometimes publish a “lopsided” Headline Roundup that only features articles from one or two sides of the media instead of one article each from left, right and center. When this happens, we’ll describe the coverage disparity and will strive to make updates if more coverage comes out.
Why Does the Order of Left, Center, and Right Headlines Rotate in AllSides Headline Roundups?
This avoids being biased in favor of the left, which otherwise would always be listed first — and read by people more often. In addition, we think it is good to require people to actually read headlines, instead of just skimming and assuming they know what each side will say.
Our goal is to be balanced, and rotating the order helps us to achieve that. We also hope to inspire critical thought about what is in the news. We appreciate that this can sometimes seem confusing, so further down the homepage, we do display a standard Left-Center-Right headline order that doesn't change.
There’s only so much our small team can do, and we’re far from experts on everything. We typically aren’t fact-checking stories or telling you who is right or wrong. Our goal is to provide you an easy way to get a breadth of information, so you can decide for yourself.
If you ever have feedback on a Headline Roundup, reach out to us on social media or email [email protected]. Thanks for reading!
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