Speaking, Seminars, and Consulting

Media Literacy For Your Workplace

Let Ad Fontes Media help mitigate your reputational risk, decrease miscommunication among your staff and colleagues, and give you the tools necessary to discern the reliability and bias of the information you encounter each day.

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Speaking Engagements

Deciphering News Media Bias or News Literacy in an Era of Hyper-Polarized Media, are both crafted for lay people seeking a news literacy framework.

Available both in-person and virtual.

Contact us to book a speaking engagement

Seminars

Ad Fontes Media offers in person seminars, full and half day, on Understanding News Literacy Through the Interactive Media Bias Chart.

Participant discounts on Ad Fontes Media merchandise may apply.

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Brand Safety and Marketing Consulting

There are few areas within U.S. corporate culture that are not impacted by hyper-polarized media and a lack of a news literacy framework.

Ad Fontes Media provides strategic guidance on corporate reputational risk and strategic opportunities.

Protect and leverage your brand through the Ad Fontes Media Reputation Assessment.

Find out more about our consulting

Vanessa on Denver 9 News

Brand Safety and Marketing Consulting

There are few areas within U.S. corporate culture that are not impacted by hyper-polarized media and a lack of a news literacy framework.

Ad Fontes Media provides strategic guidance on corporate reputational risk and strategic opportunities.

Protect and leverage your brand through the Ad Fontes Media Reputation Assessment.

Find out more about our consulting

Customers reviews

"Vanessa Otero is a gifted speaker and a thoughtful intellectual. Her presentation on the Media Bias Chart at the University of Maryland School of Law was eye-opening, and her framework enables both scholars and policymakers alike to devise plans to deal with unreliable news sources that are all too pervasive in today's society."
Will Moon, Assistant Professor of Law
University of Maryland Carey School of Law
"Vanessa’s Media Bias Chart has significantly greater impact when explained in her compelling presentation. A must see in a time of such great political divide and a desperate need for critical thinking when interpreting the news."
Sid Jordan, Co-Chair Rotary Peace Scholar and Leadership Conference
Rotary District 6600

Know Your Options

Get Our Expertise, Wherever You Are

Our Founder, Vanessa, or other expert advisors are happy to visit your educational institution and classrooms. You can reach out for the following:

Consulting

Have us consult with your teams on how to best approach the complex news media landscape and educate students the right way.

Training

Get trained in our content analysis methodology.

Speaking

Need a speaker for your next event? We’re eager to help.

Meet Our Founder and CEO

Vanessa Otero

Vanessa Otero is the creator of the Media Bias Chart and the Founder and CEO of Ad Fontes Media. Alarmed by the unhealthy state of the media ecosystem, Vanessa used her expertise in content analysis to create the original Media Bias Chart in 2016.
Then in 2018, she founded Ad Fontes Media to fulfill the need revealed by the popularity of the chart–namely, to meet the demand for a map to help people navigate the complex media landscape, as well as for comprehensive content analysis of media sources themselves.
Today, Ad Fontes Media uses a systematic approach to content analysis in which a team of politically-balanced professional analysts examine and categorize news content creating data that is useful to news consumers, educators, marketers, and even publishers themselves.

A former patent attorney in the Denver, Colorado area, Vanessa holds a B.A. in English from UCLA and a J.D. from the University of Denver. Vanessa’s formal education and professional career has centered on analytical reading, writing, and reasoning, creating an ideal background for her to create a content analysis methodology for evaluating text.