New York Magazine Bias and Reliability
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Bias: Skews Left
Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues
Overview
Ad Fontes Media rates New York Magazine in the Skews Left category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. New York Magazine is a biweekly publication focused primarily on life in New York City. The magazine was launched in 1968 and was known for publishing works from writers such as Gloria Steinem and Tom Wolfe. Part of Vox Media since November 2019, New York Mag has won numerous National Magazine Awards and a Pulitzer Award in 2018 for art criticism.
Overall Score
The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for New York Magazine according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.
Reliability: 39.84
Bias: -9.95
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.
