NJ.com Bias and Reliability
Bias: Middle
Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting
Overview
Ad Fontes Media rates NJ.com in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. NJ.com is a website focused on local and regional news in New Jersey. It is part of NJ Advance Media, which also shares news content via social media channels, newsletters and print publications including the Star-Ledger. The parent company is Advance Publications, begun in the 1920s and owned by the Newhouse Family
Overall Score
The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for NJ.com according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.
Reliability: 43.92
Bias: -2.88
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.
