Ad Fontes Media has released its latest flagship Media Bias Chart® just in time for the new year. Its most recent static chart features 172 news sources making their debut, including 124 websites, 26 podcasts, and 22 TV shows and networks. 

We produce an updated flagship version of the Media Bias Chart twice per year, in January and August. Why do we call it the flagship? Ad Fontes Media has now rated more than 3,400 news sources for bias and reliability — way too many for one chart. So every six months we unveil a new chart that shows the media landscape with a mix of new sources as well as others we’ve been rating for years. It includes a sample of sources we’ve rated across websites, TV/video, and podcast/audio news and news-like sources. Some sources do move over time, so keep an eye out for those!

If you think the static Media Bias Chart with its 172 sources is great, you’ll LOVE the Interactive Media Bias Chart version. All together we have over 3,400 sources from multiple platforms including web/print, TV/video, and podcast/audio. Become an annual subscriber today to have limited access to our data set, and search more sources than ever before! In addition to the static and interactive Media Bias Charts, we have many useful products you can use for school, business or personal use.

There are 124 new websites included in Version 12.0 of the Flagship Media Bias Chart, including ABC News (website), Al Jazeera (website), Barstool Sports, Bellingcat, BBC, CNN (website), Fox Business (website), Daily Wire, E! News, Independent Journal Review, Reason, and The Federalist.

Of the 26 podcasts included on the chart, here are a few to check out: Advisory Opinions, Lex Fridman Podcast, Reveal (podcast), and The Ben Shapiro Show.

Lastly, the chart highlights 17 TV shows and five TV networks, including Al Jazeera’s Inside Story, Fox News’ Fox & Friends, MSNBC TV Network, NewsNation TV Network, and PBS Frontline.  

Thank you for sharing the Media Bias Chart with your family, friends, students, peers, and colleagues. Understanding the reliability and bias of our information sources is key to a healthy democracy, and we all have a role to play in ensuring that! 

Click here to access your FREE download to navigate the news landscape and get to know the reliability and bias of your favorite and not-so-favorite news and “news-like” sources. If you are interested in the full list of news sources on version 12.0 of the flagship chart, access that page here.

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Erin Fox-Ramirez is director of Ratings and Research for Ad Fontes Media, a PhD student in Psychology researching media and conspiracies. She has a MA in Media Psychology from Fielding Graduate University and a BS from Pennsylvania State University. Her previous work includes the DoD, the USPTO, and the RAND Corporation. A native to the Washington D.C. area, she is passionate about improving the news for all and believes strongly in the mission of Ad Fontes.