Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Bloomberg News in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Bloomberg News is an international news agency founded by Michael Bloomberg and Matthew Winkler in 1990. Originally focused on business news, the agency now covers a variety of topics.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 42.11

Bias: -3.16

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
What Have Biden and Harris Accomplished?	-3.33	39
US Reporter Released by Russia in Multi-Country Prisoner Swap	0	23.67
Boeing to Cut 17,000 Workers as Strike Eats Into Reserves	0	47
China Shores Up Property Sector, Signals More Spending Is Coming	0	47.67
India Is Now Russia’s No. 2 Supplier of Restricted Technology	-2	46.33
Jamie Dimon for Treasury Secretary: The Idea That Never Fades	0	41.33
Are you a robot?	0	45.67
Democrats Weigh Early Biden Nomination to Squash Talk of a Swap	-2.67	24.67
Mayorkas Impeachment Dies in Senate, Thwarting GOP Attack	-5.33	44
Baltimore Bridge Collapse Reverberates From Cars to Coal	0	46.67
AI Is Putting the Silicon Back in Silicon Valley	-0.67	43.33
Joe Lieberman, a Top Democrat Who Turned on the Party, Dies at 82	0	46
Tension Between Israel and US Is Rising With Gaza Death Toll	1.33	44.67
Kate Middleton’s Photoshop Didn’t Fool Anyone. But AI Might.	-11.33	24.67
Chicago to Go Ahead With Plan to Revamp Empty Downtown Towers	5	45
Supreme Court Rules Trump Can Appear on Presidential Ballots	-1	44.33
Apple Hit With €1.8 Billion EU Fine Over Music App Abuses	0	45
Saving the Panama Canal Will Take Years and Cost Billions, If It’s Even Possible	-0.67	50.33
US, India Play Down Sikh Murder Plot With Wider Asia Strategy at Risk	0	45.33
Kamala Harris Will Attend the COP28 Climate Summit in Dubai	-2	43.67
Ghost in the Machine: How Fake Parts Infiltrated Airline Fleets	0	50.67
Corporate America Is Ignoring Jay Powell and Bingeing on Debt	0	44.33
Trafficking Ring Accused of Sending Cubans to Russia’s Frontline	0	41.67
FirstCry Founder Probed for Alleged $50 Million India Tax Evasion	0	41.33
Putin Touts Close India-Russia Ties in Phone Call With Modi	0	42.33