Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Boston Herald in the Skews Right category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Boston Herald is a tabloid daily newspaper covering the city of Boston, Massachusetts, and the surrounding area. It was founded in 1846 and since 2018 has been part of Digital First Media/MediaNews Group Inc., owned in part by Alden Global Capital.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Boston Herald according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 36.31

Bias: 9.68

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
Massachusetts teacher fired for her TikTok videos loses First Amendment federal appeal	0.67	47.33
ICE Boston agents arrest 3 immigrants charged in death of infant, boy reportedly had significant bruising on his face	4	43.67
IRS launches crackdown on 125,000 wealthy ‘non-filers’	0	43.33
Magic Mushrooms, MDMA would be legalized under Republican's plan	0.67	44.67
Howie Carr: Trump case full of sound and fury, signifying nothing	15.33	10.33
Defiant Trump slams Manhattan DA claiming 'there's no case'	1	40.33
Level of Patriots dysfunction growing by the minute	0	33.67
90 days in, Maura Healey takes on the T but otherwise remains cautious	2.67	37
4 arrested in 'large' drug busts in Boston, Revere, DA says	0	44.67
Battenfeld: Hurricane Ian puts national spotlight again on Ron DeSantis	2.67	36.33
Curley: DeSantis forces Dems to acknowledge immigration problem, begrudgingly	16.33	27
Feds bust Colombian cartel cash scheme that moved 'millions' through U.S. banks	-0.33	47
Moore: In Biden’s America, everyone is entitled to everything	18.33	23.67
Editorial: Taking the knee goes from protest to trend	4	32.33
Charlie Baker: U.S. has done ‘a bad job’ on affordable housing	-2.33	44.67
Chaos reigned in wake of Haitian president’s assassination	0	46.67
Battenfeld: Biden administration taking cancel culture to new extremes with Facebook crackdown	14	30.67
Massachusetts wet weather: Record-breaking rain leads to flooding, but sun likely to return this week	0	46
Judge orders end to DACA, current enrollees safe for now	-2.33	44.67
Battenfeld: Kamala Harris failing to live up to hype	12	30
CDC says vaccinated teachers and students need not wear a mask inside school buildings	0	48
McManus: Afghanistan gets uglier, Biden changes subject	6.33	35
Japan bans fans at Tokyo-area Olympics venues due to virus	0	46.33
Unfriendly skies: FAA fines ‘unruly’ passengers plaguing airlines	0	42.33
Stephen Lynch tests positive for coronavirus after receiving second vaccine dose	0	45.33