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Former Republican U.S. Rep. Liz Cheney announced last week that she would vote for Vice President Kamala Harris in the upcoming presidential election. Reaction to this announcement was covered widely by the media, and our analysts looked at six articles from across the political spectrum in our Topic of the Week. The most balanced and factual reporting came from The Hill and 19th News. Both articles fell into the "middle/balanced" category of bias and "mix of fact reporting and analysis or simple fact reporting" for reliability. NJ.com and PJ Media received identical reliability scores of 24.67 ("opinion or other issues"). They were almost mirror images of each other in terms of bias, with PJ Media rated as "hyper-partisan right" and NJ.com as "strong left." Similarly, reporting by Wonkette and?Breitbart had contrasting bias ratings, with Wonkette on the line between "hyper-partisan left" and "strong left" and Breitbart firmly in the "strong right" category. Both had reliability scores in the "selective or incomplete story/unfair persuasion/propaganda" category of reliability. You can see all six articles that were rated by our team on the Starter Topic of the Week page on the website. https://lnkd.in/gMhbQDUe

A simpler chart, upon request. Don’t yell at us too much. The Media Bias Chart has to make tradeoffs between simplicity and nuance. https://lnkd.in/gZY-Z6-2

Why is The Daily Mail where it is on the Media Bias Chart? Ad Fontes Media examines range of ratings from UK-based newspaper by Beth Heldebrandt https://lnkd.in/gMJyHgUC

New Media Bias Chart features 170 news and news-like sources. Flagship chart includes web/print, podcast/audio and TV/video sources all in one image. https://lnkd.in/gnDwVTJG

Ad Fontes Media has rated thousands of sources, but how do we decide which ones? Since 2018, Media Bias Chart has expanded ratings to include multiple information platforms. https://lnkd.in/gqSFmvVu

Last week Kamala Harris gave?her first major interview since declaring her run for the presidency. Media reaction to the CNN interview was varied, and our analysts took a look at six?articles?in our Topic of the Week. The Globe and?Mail provided the most reliable and balanced coverage from our?article?set, with a bias score of -.67 (middle/balanced) and a reliability score of 42 (mix of fact reporting and analysis or simple fact reporting). Newser received similar scores?of -5.67 (middle/balanced) and 39.33 (analysis or other issues). A liberal perspective was detected in coverage from HuffPost (strong left bias) and?AZCentral (skews left bias). The?article?from AZCentral received?a higher reliability score, putting it in the "analysis or other issues" category, while the HuffPost?article?fell in the "opinion or other issues" range. On the right, an?article?from OAN fell in the same general categories as the AZCentral story, (skews right and analysis or other issues). Reporting from the NYPost received the lowest scores of all?articles?in our?set, with a bias rating of "strong right" and a reliability rating that put it on the line between "opinion or other issues" and "selective or incomplete story/unfair persuasion/propaganda." https://lnkd.in/gMhbQDUe

Ad Fontes Media has rated thousands of sources, but how do we decide which ones? Since 2018, Media Bias Chart has expanded ratings to include multiple information platforms. https://lnkd.in/gqSFmvVu

Vice President Kamala Harris officially accepted the Democratic nomination for president during a speech Aug. 22 at the Democratic Nation Convention in Chicago. In our weekly Topic of the Week feature, our team analyzed six articles from various media sources about the speech. The most balanced and reliable coverage from our article set came from the BBC, which received a bias rating of -2.33 and a reliability score of 45.33. Three articles were found to have a left-leaning bias and received a reliability rating that put them in the "analysis or other issues" category of the Media Bias Chart. The articles were published by the CNBC website, The American Prospect and Axios. An article from the Fox News website received a similar reliability rating but a bias score of "strong right." Coverage from The Hill was found to be the least reliable and most biased from our article set this week, with ratings in the "opinion or other issues" category of reliability and a "hyper-partisan right" bias. The links to the six articles and their individual scores can be found on the Topic of the Week page of the website. https://lnkd.in/eYgqqjxi

New Media Bias Chart features 170 news and news-like sources. Flagship chart includes web/print, podcast/audio and TV/video sources all in one image. https://lnkd.in/gnDwVTJG

Trump and Harris agree to debate on Sept. 10 on ABC. Media Bias Chart examines coverage of the announcement. https://lnkd.in/ghW6NB4Y