LibGuides: Fake News: Quality Journalism

Consequences of Misinformation

These are real world news articles of the results of misinformation within the general population.

AllSides: Balanced News from Diverse Perspectives

AllSides
AllSides provides multiple different views of the same story which allows for a much rounder picture of the subject. Instead of just news from the right or left, AllSides covers every side, including the middle.

News Quality Evaluation

Media Bias Chart

Most Reliable for News

Reuters, ABC News, The Weather Channel, PBS News, UPI, NPR, LA Times, Politico, CNBC, PA, The Hill, USA Today, The NYT Times, Military Times, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Vox, Christianity Today

Reliable for News, but High in Analysis/ Opinion Content

The Guardian, Talking Points Memo, Five Thirty Eight, Foreign Policy, Business Insider, BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, MSNBC, The Real News Network, The Huffington Post, The Atlantic, Vice, Newsweek, The Daily Beast

Some Reliability Issues and/ or Extremism

Fox News Channel, Sputnik News, Rasmussen Reports, Real Clear Politics, New York Post, Russia Today, The American Conservative, Daily Mail, BuzzFeed, Washington Monthly, The Week, Jacobin

Serious Reliability Issues and /or Extremism

The Palmer Report, Occupy Democrats, Bipartisan Report, Daily Kos, Truthout, Democracy Now, The Blaze, The Washington Times, Daily Wire, Townhall, The Washington Examiner, OAN Network, The Federalist, PragerU, American Thinker, Red State, The American Spectator, Breibart, Epoch Timesy

*This news quality chart, created by patent lawyer Vanessa Otero, reveals that all major media outlets exhibit some level of bias. Depending on their chart location, they may present a more liberal or conservative view of a news story.

Journalism Guidelines

Society of Professional Journalists Code of Ethics
This is the code of ethics for professional journalists, but many of the tenets can be used when looking at a story.
The Trust Project
Maintained by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University; the Trust Project "explores how journalism can stand out from the chaotic crowd and signal its trustworthiness."

Finding News Sources in the Library

US Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Over 1,000 news sources including Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and LA Times.
NewsBank America's Newspapers This link opens in a new window
Articles from Pennsylvania and national newspapers.

The Patriot News (1986- ), Lancaster Inelligencer Journal (1995- ), Lancaster New Era (1995- ), Lancaster Sunday News (1995- ), Lebanon Daily News (09/15.2001- ), York Daily Record & Sunday News (09/16/2001- ), and the York Dispatch (09/2001- ). Does not provide cover-to-cover text of the print editions.
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
Full-text coverage for more than 40 newspapers and select text for 389 regional US newspapers.
World News Digest This link opens in a new window
US and international past and current events (1940-present). Historical documents, statistics, images, timelines and landmark events.