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Summarized from more than one independent rater, including AllSides and Ad Fontes Media. We do not rate outlets ourselves.
Founded in 1929, months before the Wall Street crash, and owned by the Thai businessman Chatchaval Jiaravanon. Best known for the Fortune 500, the ranking it has published since 1955.
Its long-form profiles of companies and executives have a serious tradition behind them. Critics observe that a magazine whose main asset is a ranking of large corporations, and whose events business sells access to their executives, has a structural reason to be gentle with the companies it covers.