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The Intercept
Who runs The Intercept, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest investigative news media alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- Mother Jones
Measured from The Intercept’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit The Intercept01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs The Intercept
The Intercept theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism that holds the powerful accountable.
Wikidata: US online newspaper
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What The Intercept tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
1 of the 18 alternatives below have fewer, 14 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- None found
- US company
- 1 tool
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to The Intercept
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to The Intercept, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Mother Jones – Smart, fearless journalism
American progressive magazine
Very close - 02
ProPublica — Investigative Journalism and News in the Public Interest
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Very close - 03
The Nation
The Nation Magazine
Very close - 04
Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting
We engage and empower the public through investigative journalism and groundbreaking storytelling that sparks action, improves lives and protects our democracy.
Very close - 05 The Marshall Project themarshallproject.org
nonprofit, nonpartisan online journalism organization
Very close - 06
International Consortium of Investigative Journalists - ICIJ
The ICIJ is a global network of more than 290 investigative journalists in 105 countries who collaborate on in-depth investigative stories.
Very close - 07
HuffPost - Breaking News, Politics, Entertainment & Opinion
Read the latest U.S. and world news, politics, entertainment, lifestyle and opinion pieces from HuffPost’s trusted team of journalists.
Very close - 08
Vox
Vox is a general interest news site for the 21st century. Its mission: to help everyone understand our complicated world, so that we can all help shape it. In text, video and audio, our reporters explain politics, policy, world affairs, technology, culture, science, the climate crisis, money, health and everything else that matters. Our goal is to ensure that everyone, regardless of income or status, can access accurate information that empowers them.
Very close - 09
The Conversation: In-depth analysis, research, news and ideas from leading academics and researchers.
Curated by professional editors, The Conversation offers informed commentary and debate on the issues affecting our world. Plus a Plain English guide to the latest developments and discoveries from the university and research sector.
Very close - 10
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 11
American news publication
Very close - 12
Home – Center for Public Integrity
We are a nonpartisan and nonprofit news organization dedicated to investigating systems that contribute to inequality in our country.
Very close - 13
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 14
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 15
Newsweek - Latest Breaking News, US, World, Politics, Business, Tech and Videos.
Newsweek provides in-depth analysis on news, world events, politics, business, tech, entertainment, healthcare, & trending videos. Subscribe for breaking news alerts!
Very close - 16
MinnPost — Nonprofit, independent journalism
MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.
Very close - 17
Breitbart News Network
Syndicated news and opinion website providing continuously updated headlines to top news and analysis sources.
Very close - 18
Semafor - An intelligent, transparent global news platform for breaking stories, analysis and video
Transparent, global reporting by Semafor journalists on politics, policy, business, finance, technology, climate, energy, media, entertainment, world affairs, China, Asia, Europe, Africa for US and international readers.
Very close - 19
VICE - VICE is the definitive guide to enlightening information.
VICE is a global media channel focusing on investigative journalism and enlightening videos about everything from world news, travel, art, drugs, politics, sports, fashion, sex, and super cute animals.
Very close - 20
International Business Times - Business News, Financial news
International Business Times is the leading provider of business news and financial news from the US and around the world.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles The Intercept’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones The Intercept uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what The Intercept adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 9 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 25 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to The Intercept’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Web servers
- nginx header server: nginx
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Email hosting
- Proton Mail MX mail.protonmail.ch
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS dora.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=nuWNBRgq7Tbv7H4V
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=ia8pDB7xsp05F2zwBWCjiU_jk6uvoi-gztZ5QUE0B1I
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=o4e91x4ku9ni6lkevwxuz63bgud0r4
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace · not on theintercept.com 18/20
- Meta Business Suite 15/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on theintercept.com 12/20
- PHP 11/20
- WordPress 11/20
- Google Tag Manager 9/20
- jQuery · not on theintercept.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on theintercept.com 8/20
- nginx 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on theintercept.com 7/20
- Atlassian · not on theintercept.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on theintercept.com 7/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on theintercept.com 6/20
- Parse.ly · not on theintercept.com 6/20