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I find a lot of the English language media in countries that isn't majority English language speaking tends to be slanted in a snobbishly upper middle class or otherwise elitist direction. It's also difficult to find trustworthy publications in countries with less free media environments than US/Canada/Australia/etc. (SCMP for example does little to "speak truth to power" these days.) One of my tricks is to look at big corruption exposés like Panama Papers and then see which regional media reported on those topics[0].

Wikipedia in general is a decent source for clicking through lists of media in different countries[1], although bear in mind that some countries have better online news sites that aren't technically newspapers but do publish a lot of written content.

I am not aware of a full list of English language only papers, although it would be useful to have one. Usually when I am interested in a regional story I do the Wikipedia dance to find a couple of local outlets that are reporting on it. For getting alerted to the story in the first place it's good to subscribe to some global-oriented newsletters like the one from The Guardian's Global Development section, or Proximities[2] on Substack.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_Papers#Participating_m...

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_newspapers

[2] https://proximities.substack.com/




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