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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.
20 of the 60 sites closest to The Intercept match.
- 01
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 - 02
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 - 03
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 - 04
The New Republic
Founded in 1914, The New Republic is a media organization dedicated to addressing today’s most critical issues.
Very close - 05
Christian Science Monitor - CSMonitor.com
American nonprofit newspaper (1908-)
Very close - 06
Salon.com - News, Politics, Culture, Science & Food
American progressive news and opinion website
Very close - 07
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 - 08
TIME | Current & Breaking News | National & World Updates
Breaking news and analysis from time.com. Politics, world news, photos, video, tech reviews, health, science, and entertainment news.
Very close - 09
FactCheck.org - A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center
Fact-checking website
Very close - 10
NBC News - Breaking Headlines and Video Reports on World, U.S. and Local Angles | NBC News
Go to NBCNews.com for breaking news, videos, and the latest top stories in world news, business, politics, health and pop culture.
Very close - 11
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an international media organization headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, and Washington, D.C. RFE/RL’s mission is to promote democratic values by providing accurate, uncensored news and open debate in countries where a free press is threatened and disinformation is pervasive. RFE/RL reports in 24 languages to 18 countries, reaching nearly 50 million people every week. RFE/RL is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation funded by the U.S. Congress through a federal grant from the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM).
Very close - 12
Top News, Latest headlines, Latest News, World News & U.S News - UPI.com
UPI delivers the latest headlines from around the world: Top News, Entertainment, Health, Business, Science and Sports News - United Press International
Very close - 13
The Kyiv Independent — News from Ukraine, Eastern Europe
News, analyses, investigations, opinions, podcasts and more. On-the-ground reporting from Ukraine
Very close - 14
BBC Home | Breaking News, World News, US News, Sports, Business, Innovation, Climate, Culture, Travel, Video & Audio
Visit BBC for trusted reporting on the latest world and US news, sports, business, climate, innovation, culture and much more
Very close - 15
TechCrunch | Startup and Technology News
TechCrunch | Reporting on the business of technology, startups, venture capital funding, and Silicon Valley
Very close - 16
PS - The World's Opinion Page - Project Syndicate
Project Syndicate - The World’s Opinion Page
Very close - 17
Aeon | a world of ideas
Aeon is a magazine of ideas and culture. We publish in-depth essays from the world’s most incisive and ambitious thinkers, and a mix of original and curated videos — free to all.
Very close - 18
The Spinoff
New Zealand's home for independent journalism, illuminating perspectives and good times.
Very close - 19
KQED | News, Radio, Podcasts, TV | Public Media for Northern California
Key Election Results View All Election Results
Very close - 20
TheWrap - Your trusted source for entertainment breaking news
Your trusted source for breaking entertainment news, film reviews, TV updates and Hollywood insights. Stay informed with the latest entertainment news and analysis.
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 = 60
- Sites searched
- 9,200
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 32 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