A new study from Pew Research Center found that Americans’ trust in information from both national and local news organizations has declined. This trend is true across all age groups and in both major political parties.

In the survey, 56% of adults in the U.S. said they have a lot or some trust in the information they get from national news organizations — that’s down 11 percentage points since March and 20 points since 2016. More Americans — 70% — trust their local news organizations, but that’s still a drop from March (80%) and from 2016 (82%). (The study found a decline in trust in information from social media sites, as well).

With so many sources of information in today’s media landscape, we at Ad Fontes Media understand that it can be overwhelming to know whom to trust. That’s why we do what we do.

Our mission is to rate all the news for bias reliability. That means local and midsize newspapers, Substack publications, national and international websites, and wire services. It also means TV news programs, YouTube videos, podcasts and news documentaries. Our team of trained analysts has rated them all. We encourage everyone to use our ratings as a guide when looking for fact-based and minimally biased content.

On the Media Bias Chart®, the sources at the top have been rated by our team to provide fact-based reporting. Sources in the middle contain analysis and opinion content. The ones at the bottom have been rated as incomplete, unfair, misleading or inaccurate.

The horizontal axis of the chart represents bias. News sources in the left-right middle of the chart have been rated as middle/balanced. As you move to the left of center, sources are found to have a bias of “skews left” to “most extreme left” toward the edge of the chart. Conversely, sources on the right range from “skews right” to “most extreme right” in political bias.

Sources in the green box (top middle) of the chart have been rated by our team to be minimally biased and to provide fact-based information.

It’s important to remember that there are sources of information that you can trust, but you’ll have to seek them out. One way to do that is to search for sources on the Interactive Media Bias Chart® on our website or on our mobile app for Android or Apple. You can also watch for the monthly static editions of our chart on social media.

Start with the November edition of the Media Bias Chart® for web/print sources that we’re releasing today (charts featuring podcasts and TV/video sources will be released later this month). This chart features 110 of the 2,770 web/print sources we’ve rated so far (and we’re analyzing more every day). We know it’s hard to read all of the source logos, so we’ve provided a list of those 110 here.

We curate a list of sources to include each month because it’s impossible to put all of them in a single image (the logos would overlap and appear on top of one another, and the result would be an image that is impossible to read).

Here’s a list of the sources that fall within the green box on this chart. Some on this list are local sources; some are national. All have been found by our analyst team to be generally reliable and minimally biased (many more web/print sources fall within the green box, and they will be included in future releases of the Media Bias Chart®).

• 1440 Newsletter
• Above the Law
• AZ Mirror
• Ballotpedia
• Barrett Media
• Bellingcat
• Boston Herald
• CBC Canada
• CBS 8 San Diego KFMB
• Christianity Today
• CNN (website)
• CTech
• Defense News
• El Especialito
• Fortune
• Fox Business (website)
• Hong Kong Free Press HKFP
• HuffPost
• Newsweek
• NPR (website)
• Pew Research Center
• Prison Legal News
• Puck News
• Quillette
• RealClearDefense
• Reuters
• Roll Call
• Straight Arrow News
• The Advocate – Baton Rouge
• The Hill
• The New York Times
• The Reload
• TheGrio
• Upworthy
• USA Today
• USAFacts
• Wall Street Journal
• Washington Post
• World News Group

Eight sources make their debut on this month’s chart:

• Above the Law
• Barrett Media
• Evie Magazine
• Irish Star US
• The Last Refuge
• The New American
• User Mag
• WION

If you don’t see your favorite source on the November chart, that doesn’t mean we haven’t rated it! You can search for it on the Interactive Media Bias Chart®. It’s free, but you can access only 250 sources, and there are limits in how many searches you can conduct per day.

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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