A Majority of Adults Prefer to Get Their News Online, But How do You Know if it’s Unbiased and Reliable? The Media Bias Chart Can Help
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05/08/2024
According to the Pew Research Center, 86% of adults say they often or sometimes get news from a smartphone, computer or tablet. Nearly six in 10 Americans say they prefer accessing news from a digital device rather than from TV, radio or print.
But how do you know if the news you find online is unbiased and reliable? The Media Bias Chart® can help.
The Ad Fontes Media analyst team has now fully rated 76,000 online articles for bias and reliability from more than 2,500 online sources, and we’re featuring 143 of them on May’s Static Media Bias Chart®. A list of these 143 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:
- AV Club
- Bearing Arms
- Boston.com
- Breaking Defense
- Chicago Reader
- Desert Sun
- Entrepreneur
- Jewish News Syndicate
- Project Veritas
- Slay News
- teleSUR
- USAFacts
When you combine web/print, TV/video and podcast/audio, our team has fully rated more than 3,800 news sources. We’ve also compiled commercial data on over 10,800 sources. Become a subscriber today to search even more of your favorite news and news-like sources!
Did someone share an online article with you, and you want to know if it’s legit? You can request that our team rate a particular article by submitting a link via our website.
Check back later this month for monthly charts that focus on podcast/audio and TV/video sources. And if you want to stay informed on all of 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.
