Overall Score

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

Reliability: 47.01

Bias: -1.04

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.

Content Sample URL	Bias	Reliability
Butler County DA disputes testimony that officers left posts to look for Trump rally shooter	0	45
Job demand, good pay spur growth in nursing programs	0	45.33
Central Catholic grad Neal Shipley under par after 1st round at Masters	0	41.33
Filings show top conservative donor Jeffrey Yass gave $800K to PAC attacking Summer Lee	0	44
Flooding closes part of Parkway West, other Allegheny County roads, triggers warnings throughout region	0	46.67
Police charge Etna mom in drowning death of son, 1, in backyard pool	0	43.33
New game plan: Kenny Pickett’s Cranberry home on the market for $2.7M	0	42
Justices rule for cursing Pennsylvania cheerleader over Snapchat post	0	47.67
Glenshaw man charged in Jan. 6 Capitol attack	-2.67	48.33
Wolf again vows to veto any bills that limit abortion access in Pa.	-2.33	46.33
Troopers charge Allegheny County pair after $1 million cocaine, heroin bust in New Stanton	0	48.67
Why are so many NFL players still reluctant to get vaccinated? League’s union head said it’s not because of a lack of information.	-4	45.33
Parking deal clears path for 99 new apartments in Greensburg	-1	47.33
Coronavirus death toll surges past 250,000 in U.S.	-0.67	48.33
Serra Catholic moves to remote learning	0.67	48.67
County covid surge prompts Shaler to switch to remote learning for 3 weeks	0	49
PWSA pleads guilty to violating Clean Water Act, pumping sludge into Allegheny River	0	48
Drag queen art critics return for The Westmoreland’s online program	-7	44.67
Streets closed in Oakland to repair water main break	0	46.67
Covid forces Punxsutawney Phil to go virtual; no crowds on Gobbler’s Knob in February	0	46.33
Allegheny County advises ‘stay home except for essentials,’ warns of public health order	0	45.33
KDKA-TV says ‘Wendy Bell doesn’t work for us’ after social media outcry	-0.33	44.33
Walat’s tavern co-owner in Somerset County found dead inside his bar destroyed by fire	1.67	49.33
Poll: Most Pennsylvania voters will cast their ballots in person in November	1.67	52.67
‘Acknowledgement of risk’: the first paper facing many college students in covid era	1.67	51.67