Is News Down? Check Status

News outlets deliver information when it matters most, which is also when they're most likely to be overwhelmed. We monitor the biggest global and regional news sites — paywalled and free — so you can tell the difference between a breaking-news traffic spike and a real outage affecting readers everywhere.

News sites have a unique outage profile: they're mostly fine until a single major story drives a 10x or 50x traffic surge, at which point CDN caches struggle and origin servers buckle. The pattern is almost always brief — a few minutes to under an hour — but the 200 OK from a CDN-cached homepage masks that the article pages people are actually trying to read are returning 503s. We watch crowd reports closely on news sites for exactly this reason. If you're trying to read a breaking story and the page won't load, switching to the publisher's mobile app or RSS feed often works while their web servers recover.

We're currently tracking 144 news websites using dual-signal outage detection — automated HTTPS probes plus crowd-sourced user reports. Click any site for live status, response-time history, and recent reports.

Use this page to check news status across every major service we monitor. Whether news services down today is what you're searching for, you want to see news outages today, you're checking if a specific news site is news not working, or you need real-time news server status — the live grid below answers in seconds. Each site links to its own status page with response time, uptime statistics, and crowd reports. If you're researching the best news options or the most reliable news servers, the per-site uptime history is the most honest comparison.

See current news outages, popular news platforms ranked by traffic, and the full list of news services we monitor below. If you're seeing news not loading, news problems, or news services not working — this hub is the fastest way to confirm whether the issue is platform-wide or local to your network.

Not finding what you need? Check any domain from the homepage, or see current outages across all sites.