Today we’re releasing the April edition of the Media Bias Chart® for websites/print. This chart features 126 of the more than 2,600 websites our team has rated. This includes national news websites like The Atlantic and Washington Post but also local news websites such as the Pahrump Valley Times and The Sacramento Bee.

Some have asked us why we bother to include local websites on the chart. Our answer is simple: Local news is the most reliable and least biased overall, according to our data.

You’ve probably heard us talk a lot lately about the “green box” on the Media Bias Chart®. Sources in the green box (top middle) of the chart are recommended by our team to provide minimally biased and reliable, fact-based information.

Slightly more than 2,000 web/print sources fall within the green box, and 1,280 of those are local sources. In fact, 95% of the local websites/newspapers we’ve rated fall within the green box. That’s quite an endorsement of the value of local news.

Remember: You can find information about national news and politics in dozens of places every day, but there’s likely only a handful of news outlets – perhaps only one – that’s reporting about what’s happening in your community and region (if you’re lucky enough not to live in a news desert).

Despite declining revenues and staff reductions, we’ve found that local news outlets are still publishing reliable and minimally biased information. They deserve your support.

Here’s a list of all websites/newspapers that fall within the green box on this April version of the Media Bias Chart®. More than 2,000 web/print sources fall within the green box; this month’s chart includes only 43 of them.

• ABC News (website)
• AP
• BBC
• Boston Herald
• CBS News (website)
• Christianity Today
• CNN (website)
• CTech
• Deseret News
• Erie Times-News
• FOX 8 Cleveland WJW
• Fox Business (website)
• LAist
• Newsweek
• NPR (website)
• Pahrump Valley Times
• Patch
• Pew Research Center
• ProPublica
• Puck News
• Quillette
• RealClearWorld
• Reason
• Reuters
• Straight Arrow News
• Tangle
• The Atlantic
• The Center Square
• The Dispatch
• The Guardian
• The Hill
• The New Atlantis
• The New York Times
• The Reload
• The Sacramento Bee
• The War Horse
• Univision News
• USAFacts
• Vox
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• WIRED
• Yahoo News

If you’d like to see a list of all 126 sources included on the April web/print chart, you can find it on our website. Remember, we choose a selection of sources to include on each month’s chart because it’s impossible to put all of them in a single image.

Five sources make their debut on this month’s chart:

• CNN-News18
• MintPress News
• Steve Gruber
• The Telegraph – UK
• The War Horse

Don’t see your favorite source on the April chart? You can look up ratings on all sources we’ve analyzed and create custom chart images using our free mobile app available for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.

For expanded access, please consider a News Nerd subscription, which gives you the ability to search all sources we’ve rated and provides many additional benefits.

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