Ask HN: What Are Some Good African, Asian, South American News Websites?

Rather than criticize the suggestions of others in this thread, how about provide some suggestions that meet your own criteria? And note that you always have to consider the source. At the very least, people are human: they’re not omniscient, write for a particular audience, and have limited resources. These in and of themselves contribute to bias without any malicious or underhanded intent.

Thank you! For all the suggestions, I'll definitely be adding all of these to my list. Any more suggestions is greatly appreciated!

I just presented my opinion. I am a regular listener. As a non westerner I know for a fact that stories about my own country is dominated by a colonial view point.

The OP is specifically looking for sources that do not have western bias. And I hope my opinion will be useful.

The Intercept and Democracy Now cover South America quite a bit.

Particularly politics and environmental issues, for example Glenn Greenwald lives and has been reporting in Brazil.

Some good advice someone gave me awhile ago was to follow journalists themselves instead of news outlets

> I follow (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc)

What's the point? They are all essentially the same news company. They push the same narrative and agenda. Just pick one and move on with your day.

The problem is that a lot of african, asian and south american news companies are created by, owned by or run by by westerners. And most of them, like the SCMP, were created by the west to push western propaganda. So essentially, you aren't getting african, asian and south american news. You are getting western propaganda about african, asian and south american news.

Also, africa, asia and south america are huge continents. I don't think there is such a thing called "african, asian and south american" news.

For geopolitical news, xinhua/cgtn for china, rt for russia, al jazeera, etc. They are all biased propaganda, just like the (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc), but you get a different biased perspective. I find that they are generally good at pointing each others lies.

> What news websites do you guys know/recommend to follow for news in these countries? Language would preferably be in English.

Why not just follow vlogs of countries you are interested? Or visit the countries you are interested in? Or find some forums/irc/etc of the countries you are interested in and talk directly to the people?

News, by and large, is a great waste of time. Most of it is toxic nonsense written by people who know nothing about the subject they are covering.