Salt Lake Tribune Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overall Score

The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for Salt Lake Tribune according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology.

Bias: -1.20

Reliability: 46.32

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
21 people treated for carbon monoxide poisoning on Lake Powell houseboat0.042.67
Las Vegas lawyer indicted in ‘slip-and-fall’ scheme that targeted Latter-day Saints0.044.0
Romney accused of providing ‘aid and comfort’ to Democrats in proposed Emery County GOP censure2.043.67
Gwyneth Paltrow verdict: Jury reaches decision in lawsuit over Park City ski crash0.041.33
Wasatch Hollow is flooded ‘by design’ — and could stay that way for weeks0.044.0
Donald Trump has been indicted, becoming the 1st ex-president charged with crime9.3343.0
Salt Lake Bees to open Smith’s Ballpark to full capacity0.043.0
Justin Thulin: In replacing Cheney, GOP chooses the Big Lie and power over truth and democracy3.6735.33
Utah coronavirus cases continue to fall, but deaths on the rise0.050.0
Mike Lee is 1 of 2 senators voting against first-ever Black secretary of defense-142.67
Intermountain Healthcare is preparing to postpone some surgeries because of rising COVID-19 cases0.050.0
Utah Jazz take Kansas center Udoka Azubuike at No. 27, Syracuse wing Elijah Hughes at 39; trade center Tony Bradley0.047.33
Utah’s COVID-19 vaccine plan: Front-line health workers as soon as December, all Utahns by July0.051.0
As Utah’s coronavirus hospitalizations rise, health officials debate guidance for Thanksgiving-0.6749.67
Sam Merrill picked by Milwaukee Bucks, but BYU’s Yoeli Childs goes undrafted in NBA Draft-0.3345.0
Robert Gehrke: Utah’s governor gets an earful from lawmakers upset by his coronavirus orders-9.6736.67
14 more Utah schools shift online this week, including the first elementary to have an outbreak0.050.0
Uintah High’s football season ends after outbreak of COVID-19 among players0.049.0
Carly Ferrin: Adapting our schools to COVID realities-337.0
DWR closes wildlife area to target shooting-0.6744.67
EPA guts plan that would have slashed pollution from Utah coal plants-3.3346.67
A Utah inmate with COVID-19 has died as the virus spreads through the prison-3.3349.33
Salt Lake County election results show the limits of campaign spending0.049.67
Utah lawmakers continue to debate governor’s emergency powers as coronavirus wears on6.048.0
Salt Lake County takes stock of COVID-19 damage as it prepares next year’s budget0.048.33