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Euronews has had a new editorial director for the past 3 weeks and he comes from Axel Springer's German tabloid Bild.

Quote via Politico (ironically—owned by Springer):

"Strunz declarations on Twitter are worrying because this is not what you’d expect from the boss of Euronews, especially when he applauds [far right German party] AfD results as a sign of functioning democracy," src

After Trump's victory, Euronews shared, uncommented, a congratulations video from Orbán to Trump on its Instagram feed.

There is now an open letter from the Union representatives voicing concern about the staff's journalistic freedoms (in French).

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (2 children)

euractiv.com is pretty good, but also privatly owned.

arte.tv news format journal is great, but only video and German and French public broadcasting. However they are very willing to have shows not talking about either country. However it is French and German and not English

theguardian.com is independent, but mixed in its reporting standards. Sometimes amazing sometimes just okay.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Arte does have some English, Spanish, Polish, and Italian stuff but it's quite limited and generally only subtitles. Other languages if they happened to have bought it from somewhere else, say a documentary about Kafka where you can select the original Czech audio. News won't be among the English subtitled stuff but there's a good amount of documentaries, background and big-picture stuff. Not just society and politics, all kinds of topics.

Just go browse. And, separately, a metric fuckton of live concerts from all genres.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Brilliant, thanks! I've never given Euractiv much of a chance for some reason. Will do it now!

I've been using Arte before from France, but I somehow only now realized it's available for free outside France and Germany as well. Great stuff.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Arte gets a bit of funding from the EU as well, to ad subtitles for some programming to Spanish, Italian, English and Polish. However outside the EU you sometimes need VPN to access to content.