Real Change News Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Skews Left

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Real Change News according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Bias: -8.99

Reliability: 41.68

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.

Reliability scores for articles and shows are on a scale of 0-64. Scores above 36 are generally good; scores below 24 are generally problematic. Scores between 24-36 indicate a range of possibilities, with some sources falling there because they are heavy in opinion and/or analysis, and some because they have a high variation in reliability between content pieces.

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 the bias score of a piece of content, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting 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 source’s overall bias score.

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 source’s overall reliability score.

The bias rating, demonstrated on the horizontal axis of the Media Bias Chart®️, 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, selective/incomplete, misleading, and inaccurate/fabricated information.

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
https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2025/11/12/katie-wilson-poised-be-seattles-next-mayor-2.6742.67
Trump’s Space Force beware. Cthulhu hates Renaissance architecture-15.6728.0
Inside the ballot processing center and its COVID safeguards-747.67
A partridge in a pear tree? How ’bout a leg lamp and a corgi?0.027.67
Pets take flight0.043.33
Peacemaker and strategist Rev. Cecilia Kingman on ‘Hold the Line: A Guide to Defending Democracy’-15.3329.0
City budget cuts police funding, boosts public safety alternatives and homelessness services-3.3347.0
Renton City Council considering legislation to close homeless shelter in Red Lion Hotel0.047.67
Seattle voters approve Proposition 1, increasing funding for public transportation-149.33
Surviving COVID on the Navajo Reservation-5.6749.67
New strategy to establish consumption spaces for drug use could work this time-1241.83
Seattle considers a basic-needs defense for misdemeanors | A shelter eviction in Renton-9.6742.67
Councilmember Lewis proposes exceptions to build permanent supportive housing-3.6746.33
Governor’s budget includes homeless prevention | King County inmate dies; investigations to come | Statewide eviction protection extended again-4.3343.67
In my own words: Justice for Herbert Hightower Jr.-1136.33
Neighborhood heartbeat-2.3344.0