Today we’re releasing the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for podcasts. It contains a representative sample of all of the shows our analysts have rated.

Sometimes when we release our podcast chart, we hear from people questioning the placement of shows like the Fox News Rundown podcast. You’ll see it on this chart near the top middle. This is a good time to remind people that this podcast is different than the Fox News website, which is different than the Fox News TV Network, which has several shows that fall across the bias and reliability spectrum on the Media Bias Chart®.

Our team does not give a particular show certain bias and reliability scores because of who owns it. Our analysts conduct robust content analysis of particular articles and episodes and rate the content itself. So, the bias and reliability of Fox News podcasts and TV shows will vary. This is also true for CNN and MS NOW/MSNBC and other media companies; I wrote more about that here. 

The chart below shows a sample of Fox News properties and their placement on the Media Bias Chart®. You’ll find three podcasts: Fox News Rundown, FOX Across America with Jimmy Failla and Fox News Hourly Update. You’ll also find the Fox News website (FoxNews.com) and the Fox News TV Network overall (to see where some individual Fox News TV programs fall, check out the November TV/video chart that will be released next week).

Fox News Rundown publishes 20- to 30-minute episodes that report on two or three top stories of the day and then end with a commentary segment. The Fox News Hourly Update, which also appears in the top middle of the above chart, provides short updates on the top news every hour throughout the day. A majority of the reporting on each show focuses on facts rather than opinion, and it’s opinion content that often lowers bias and reliability scores for other Fox News programs.

Our analysts have rated randomly selected episodes from the Fox News Rundown podcast and have found it to be minimally biased and reliable. The same is true for NPR News Now, which regularly publishes five-minute episodes highlighting the top news of the day. That’s why both shows fall within the green box on the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for Podcasts/Audio. Sources in the green box of the chart have been found by our team to consistently provide minimally biased, fact-based information. 

In addition to Fox News Rundown and NPR News Now, 9 podcasts fall within the green box on the November edition: 

• Autocracy in America
• Banished with Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder
• Conversations with Bill Kristol
• Just Asking Questions
• NYT: The Ezra Klein Show
• The Editors
• The New Yorker Radio Hour
• This Morning with Gordon Deal
• UNBIASED Politics

More podcasts fall within the green box, and we’ll feature those on charts in the future.

The November edition of the Podcast/Audio Media Bias Chart® includes 45 podcasts (see a list of those 45 here). In all, we’ve rated more than 850 podcasts, and we choose only a few dozen to include on each month’s static Media Bias Chart because it’s impossible to show all of them in one image. In order to make the logos as large and as readable as possible, we’ve magnified a portion of the chart and removed portions around the edges that contain no sources.

Eight podcasts are included on the chart this month for the first time (three of these fall within the green box):

• Autocracy in America
• Banished with Amna Khalid and Jeff Snyder
• Conversations with Bill Kristol
• Majority 54 with Jason Kander and Ravi Gupta
• Risky Business with Nate Silver and Maria Konnikova
• The Glenn Show – Glenn Loury
• The Mike Gallagher Show
• The Way I Heard It with Mike Rowe

You, too, can create custom chart images using our free mobile app available for Apple and Android. You also can access the free version of the interactive chart on the website, which allows access to data on 250 of our top sources. Daily search limits apply.

To get expanded access, you’ll need a News Newbie or News Nerd subscription. Our subscribers can search all sources our team has fully rated (websites, podcasts and TV/video), with other added benefits! 

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