Fewer Than Half of Podcasts Rated by Ad Fontes Media are Recommended
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03/17/2025
The Ad Fontes Media team has now rated more than 3,100 episodes from a variety of podcasts, and based on that data, it has placed only 42% of podcasts within the “recommended” section of 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.
Analysts assign bias and reliability ratings for each podcast episode they rate. A weighted average of those scores determines where that particular podcast is placed on the Media Bias Chart®. (Read more about how our analysts rate content on the website).
The March version of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart® released today includes 50 of the more than 775 podcasts our analyst team has rated. You’ll find 11 sources within the green “recommended” box, including two that are featured on the chart for the first time.
This is only a sample of the podcasts we’ve rated. More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.
- Amarica’s Constitution
- CNN Political Briefing – new!
- Conversations with Tyler
- Daily Tech Headlines – new!
- Open to Debate
- Start Here
- The Janice Dean Podcast
- The Pour Over Today
- The World and Everything In It
- WSJ: Minute Briefing
- WSJ: The Journal.
We choose a selection of podcasts to include on each month’s static media bias chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image (see the list of all 50 shows on the March chart here). In order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.
In addition to CNN Political Briefing and Daily Tech Headlines, four podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time:
- Fallacious Trump
- FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla
- The Independent with Scott Atlas
- The Telepathy Tapes
Don’t see your favorite podcast on the March 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.
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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.
