Consequences of Misinformation
AllSides
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AllSidesAllSides 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.
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News Quality EvaluationTo view a larger version of the chart open the above document.
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Interactive ChartThis Interactive Media Bias Chart® is a data visualization that displays measures of news (and “news-like”) articles and sources generated by analysts and staff of Ad Fontes Media. It reflects our most up-to-date ratings of all our rated articles and shows over time.
Journalism Guidelines
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Society of Professional Journalists Code of EthicsThis is the code of ethics for professional journalists, but many of the tenets can be used when looking at a story.
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The Trust ProjectMaintained 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."
Great e-Book Sources
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American Journalism and Fake News: Examining the Facts by Publication Date: 2018-12-07This book provides a comprehensive and impartial overview of the state of American journalism and news-gathering in the 21st century, with a special focus on the rise--and meaning--of "fake news." -
Media, Journalism, and "Fake News": a Reference Handbook by Publication Date: 2019-10-25The volume starts with a background of the development of news and information in the United States. It then goes on to discuss significant problems, controversies, and solutions related to the topic.
Finding News Sources in the Library
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US NewsstreamOver 1,000 news sources including Christian Science Monitor, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and LA Times.
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Newspaper SourceFull-text coverage for more than 40 newspapers and select text for 389 regional US newspapers.
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World News DigestUS and international past and current events (1940-present). Historical documents, statistics, images, timelines and landmark events.