Global — news channels live

The broadcasters in this section do not belong to a single country. Some are news agencies: rather than publishing bulletins on their own channels, they produce the raw copy, video and photography that newspapers and television stations around the world then use. Most of the international news you read in a day has passed through one of three agencies without your noticing: Reuters, the Associated Press and Agence France-Presse. All three go live on their own YouTube accounts at moments that warrant it — a major press conference, a rocket launch, an election night, or an uninterrupted feed from a war zone.

Agency journalism has a particular value for understanding how news works. Because their clients are outlets of every political stripe, agency copy is written to be as free of interpretation as possible and heavy on verifiable fact. For a reader who wants to see the raw version of an event, this is where to start.

The other broadcasters here have identifiable headquarters but are global in reach, addressing an international audience directly rather than a particular national one.