Gândul
Gândul is a Romanian online news outlet launched in 2005, covering politics, society and opinion. It has historically taken a left-leaning, populist editorial line.
Gândul at a glance
- Country
- Romania
- Kind of outlet
- Digital-native outlet
- Editorial leaning
- Left-leaning
- Website
- gandul.ro ↗
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How Crosswire groups Gândul
Crosswire groups Gândul as Left-leaning for comparisons within Romania's directory. This is an approximate Crosswire label, not a verified rating of its individual articles or a claim that every journalist shares one position. In Romania, Adevărul and Digi24 are listed as Centrist — so you can open Gândul beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Gândul sits in Romania's press
Gândul is one of 6 outlets tracked in Romania, and one of 3 digital-native outlets among them — the others being HotNews and G4Media. By outlets tracked, Romania ranks 23rd of the 45 countries on Crosswire's Europe hub, which lists 264 outlets in all.
Across Europe, Crosswire tracks 31 of the 191 digital-native outlets in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Gândul outside Romania, starting with Central and Eastern Europe, are NewsMaker (Moldova), Meduza (Russia), The Independent (United Kingdom) and The Journal (Ireland). Opening one of them beside Gândul is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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