The American press is national, metropolitan and intensely partisan by turns, and the list below covers the national dailies, the metro papers that still do most local accountability reporting, the wires, and a digital political sector that spans the full spectrum.

The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal are the national papers of record, with USA Today and the Los Angeles Times alongside. The Associated Press and Reuters supply the wire copy much of the rest of the industry runs on, and National Public Radio anchors public radio.

Metro dailies remain the backbone of local coverage: the Chicago Tribune, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Houston Chronicle, The Dallas Morning News, Boston Herald, The Seattle Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Star Tribune, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Miami Herald, Detroit Free Press and Tampa Bay Times.

Television news runs through CNN, Fox News, CBS News, NBC News and ABC.

The political and digital sector is where the ideological range is clearest, from Politico, Axios, The Hill, Vox, Slate, HuffPost, The Intercept and Talking Points Memo through to Breitbart, The Daily Caller, The Daily Wire, Newsmax and the Drudge Report.

Business is covered by Bloomberg, CNBC, Forbes, Fortune and MarketWatch; sport by ESPN, The Athletic and Sports Illustrated.