Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates NBC News (website) in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. NBC News (website) is the news division of the National Broadcasting Company, part of NBCUniversal, owned by Comcast Corporation. Founded in 1940, it is headquartered in New York City. Its website was launched in 1996.

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for NBC News (website) according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Reliability: 42.86

Bias: -5.38

Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst.

The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score.

To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the Media Bias Chart^®️ on the horizontal axis, ranges from most extreme left to middle to most extreme right. The reliability rating, demonstrated on the chart’s vertical axis, rates sources on a scale from original fact reporting to analysis, opinion, propaganda and inaccurate/fabricated information.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 40 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-40 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between articles.

Bias scores for articles and shows are on a scale of -42 to +42, with higher negative scores being more left, higher positive scores being more right, and scores closer to zero being minimally biased, equally balanced, or exhibiting a centrist bias.

Individual Content Sample Scores

These are the most recent content samples that Ad Fontes Media analysts have rated for this source.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
Tulsi Gabbard in spotlight after top official resigns in protest over Iran war	-6.67	40.33
They've never won an NCAA Tournament game. Is ninth time the charm?	0.0	44.33
Woman killed by St. Patrick's Day parade float in Louisville	0.0	42.67
Federal judge blocks RFK Jr.'s changes to childhood vaccine schedule	-4	42.33
TSA callout rate surged over the weekend as partial shutdown continues	1.67	43.33
Trump loyalist Ed Martin faces disciplinary case over DOJ threat against Georgetown Law	-1.33	42.33
Alabama governor commutes death sentence of man who didn't kill anyone	0.0	43.67
Trump says it's 'too soon' to talk about seizing Iran's oil — but doesn't rule it out	0.0	42.33
Woman identified in shooting at Rihanna's Los Angeles house	0.0	41.33
James Talarico wins Texas Democratic Senate primary as GOP contest goes to a runoff	0.0	48.0
Trump's MAGA base wrestles with Iran strikes launched by an 'America First' president	-5.33	38.67
ChatGPT Health 'under-triaged' half of medical emergencies in a new study	-1.33	45.0
Khamenei's death met with public mourning, quiet celebrations as regime's opponents wait for an opening	0.67	45.0
Measles outbreaks are costing the U.S. millions of dollars. The true losses can't be counted.	-3.33	45.67
A professor’s mic went off mute. What she said about Black children reverberated across New York.	0.0	45.0
Church congregant sues alleged Minnesota church protesters	0.0	43.0
The science behind the 'super-ager' brain	0.0	46.67
Stephen Colbert says CBS didn't air interview out of fear of FCC	-8.33	42.67
Genetic genealogy brings promise and challenges to the Nancy Guthrie case	0.0	45.0
A familiar uncertainty as the world grapples with fresh Trump tariff turmoil	-4.33	43.0
After hitting bottom twice following Olympic glory, Nick Goepper finds joy once again	0.0	44.67
John Cornyn warns of a GOP 'massacre' in Texas if Ken Paxton beats him in their Senate primary	0.0	42.67
Two summer hopefuls find their Olympic debuts on snow and ice	0.0	43.67
Billionaire Les Wexner tells lawmakers that he was 'conned' by Jeffrey Epstein and did 'nothing wrong'	0.0	44.67
Ukrainian officials to boycott Winter Paralympics for letting Russians compete under their flag	-1.67	41.33