The Ad Fontes Media analyst team has spent years manually rating online news articles for bias and reliability, and they recently exceeded 75,000 individual article ratings (in addition to over 5,800 video and podcast episode ratings)! 

We use these manual ratings for two main applications — one, to determine the overall source score of each web/print source that appears on the Media Bias Chart®, and two, to train our AI model to rate millions more articles for reliability and bias on an ongoing basis.

We’ve now manually rated more than 2,500 online sources, and we’re featuring 146 of them on April’s Static Media Bias Chart®. A list of these 146 sources is available on our website. 

Placing all 2,500 sources on a single image is impossible, given the substantial volume. But if you want to check our ratings on more online sources, explore them using the Interactive Media Bias Chart® on our website as well as our Media Bias Chart® app, available for iPhone and Android. 

On this month’s web/print chart, 12 sources make their debut:

• Cardinal & Pine
• Dissent Magazine
• Human Events
• Monsanto.News
• Phoenix New Times
• Politifact
• Reliable News
• Semafor
• Strive | Kettering Health
• The Free Press
• The Iowa Torch
• The People’s Voice

If some of these websites are new to you, we encourage you to explore them and share your thoughts. It’s a good exercise to visit sources you wouldn’t normally read in order to see how they are reporting on the day’s news. Varying your media diet is a great way to sharpen your critical thinking skills and become a more experienced news consumer.

When you combine web/print, TV/video and podcast/audio, our team has rated more than 3,800 news sources. We’ve also compiled commercial data on over 10,000 sources. Become an annual subscriber today to search even more of your favorite news and news-like sources! And check back later this month for monthly charts that focus on podcast/audio and TV/video sources. 

Read more about how Ad Fontes rates the news or review our monthly static charts (subscribers only). And if you want to stay informed on our work, join our free email list!

Beth Heldebrandt is a Media Research Specialist at Ad Fontes Media. She has more than 30 years of experience in the fields of journalism and public relations, and was an adjunct instructor of journalism for 17 years at Eastern Illinois University. Beth has a B.A. in journalism from Southern Illinois University-Carbondale and an M.A. in English from Eastern Illinois University. She’s a mom and grandma, and enjoys traveling, puzzles and reading.