How many news agencies are owned by far-right

1. What the question actually asks and why existing sources fall short

The user’s query asks for a numeric inventory—how many news agencies are “owned by far‑right” interests—which requires three definitional steps (what counts as a “news agency,” what constitutes “far‑right” ownership, and what time slice is relevant); none of the supplied sources attempts that specific audit or supplies a final count, they instead catalog outlets and measure bias or traffic ^{[1] [7] [4] [3]}. Academic and library guides list political leanings and examples of conservative or right‑leaning outlets but stop short of labeling owners as “far‑right” or producing a comprehensive owner-by-owner ledger that would support a single number ^{[1] [8] [3]}.

2. What the supplied reporting actually documents

The supplied reporting includes bias guides and lists—University of Michigan and AllSides style resources that rate outlets on a left–right spectrum ^{[1] [9]}, Wikipedia and SourceWatch entries catalog conservative and right‑wing outlets historically ^{[2] [7] [10]}, audience and traffic data placing Fox News, Epoch Times and others among the most visited right‑of‑center/far‑right sites ^[4], and curated lists such as Feedspot’s “Top 60 Conservative News Websites” that enumerate prominent conservative outlets without mapping ownership back to “far‑right” actors ^[6]. A Harvard index seeks “radical transparency” on ownership of mainstream titles but acknowledges gaps and does not use a “far‑right owner” binary to produce counts ^[3].

3. Examples commonly labeled right or far‑right in the reporting

Specific outlets repeatedly identified as far‑right or extreme‑right in these sources include Epoch Times (called “far‑right” by Statista’s categorization in a traffic ranking) and outlets that Pew places at the rightmost extreme of audience orientation, such as Breitbart and Newsmax, while distinguishing Fox News as right‑leaning but not at the same extremity in audience orientation ^{[4] [5]}. Aggregators and rating services (Ground News, AllSides, Media Bias Fact Check) collect bias labels and audience metrics but do not convert those labels into an ownership census ^{[11] [9]}.

4. Why producing a single numeric answer would be methodologically unsound based on these sources

Counting “how many” requires consistent definitions and an ownership dataset; the sources either classify ideological slant (AllSides, Ground News) or list outlets (Wikipedia, Feedspot), or measure traffic (Statista), but none publish a vetted list of outlets that are demonstrably owned by actors who self‑identify or are universally agreed to be “far‑right” ^{[1] [2] [4] [6] [11]}. Ownership chains are often complex (private equity roll‑ups, corporate parents, individual proprietors), and projects that aim at ownership transparency explicitly warn of missing data and shifting holdings ^{[3] [11]}. Thus the supplied reporting does not support an authoritative numeric count.

5. Practical next steps to produce a defensible count

A defensible inventory would require assembling three datasets and applying transparent definitions: (A) a comprehensive list of active news organizations (from traffic and registry databases), (B) verified ownership records for each (SEC filings, corporate registries, investigative indexes such as the Harvard project), and (C) a documented, operational definition of “far‑right ownership” (e.g., owners or controlling shareholders who are public political actors or organizations with documented far‑right affiliation). The supplied sources offer fragments of A and contextual tools for B and C but not the completed dataset or methodology needed to answer the question with a single number ^{[3] [11] [1]}.