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In fairness, when it comes to surviving the modern media landscape the Guardian seems to be good at online, but has the distinct advantage of the UK having no o
by notahacker 1y ago
In fairness, when it comes to surviving the modern media landscape the Guardian seems to be good at online, but has the distinct advantage of the UK having no other remotely left leaning broadsheets or even middle market tabloids. Since Lebvedev destroyed the Independent, it's basically the Guardian or the Mirror which is a trashy rag, and the nominal centrist papers are owned by Murdoch and the Daily Mail General Trust.
Not sure how that translates into US media context.
The second lesson from UK media is that the Daily Mail General Trust is usually assumed to be a vehicle for whatever the owning dynasty wants, despite encompassing multiple newspapers with different editorial stances (this is also certainly historically accurate: in the 1930s the man who set up the trust was writing letters to the PM offering editorial support in exchange for being allowed to veto any government appointments the PM wanted to make). So I don't think a trust structure alone will make people believe Bezos has no influence over it.
- metabagel 1y agoAnecdotally, The Guardian has a lot of U.S. readers. I regularly read and donate to The Guardian. Their U.S. and California coverage is very good and seems to be continually improving. Axios has an article about The Guardian's success in the U.S., but I don't have access behind the paywall. https://www.axios.com/2025/05/06/the-guardian-us-expansion https://www.axios.com/2025/05/06/the-guardian-us-expansion Better resource: https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/09/11/Guardian_Annual_Report_24_25.pdf https://uploads.guim.co.uk/2025/09/11/Guardian_Annual_Report...
- platevoltage 1y agoI'm one of them. I don't love that I have to overseas to find reliable news on my own country.
- PaulDavisThe1st 1y agoNot sure what the verb was that is missing here, but The Guardian has offices in the US, reporters across the country, articles written solely for its US audience. If you only care about who owns it, then I guess it still counts as an overseas operation, but in most other senses, it really isn't. Also, by that metric, Fox News is an overseas entity.