Our work at Ad Fontes Media is all about reducing the polarization that is caused in large part to the proliferation of junk news. Many of you may have the opportunity to engage in discussions about politics with your relatives this Thanksgiving. I'm optimistically calling it an "opportunity" because actually talking to people in your ...Read more

Ad Fontes Media’s First Multi-Analyst Content Analysis Ratings Project White Paper August 2019 Author: Vanessa Otero Download PDF Here: Multi-Analyst Ratings Project White Paper Aug 2019 I. Overview II. Analysts III. Training IV. Structure V. Data Analysis Results         a. Standard Deviations and Outliers         b. Inter-rater reliability   ...Read more

Ad Fontes Media is proud to bring you the latest version of the Media Bias Chart, which is now interactive! For those of you who are familiar with earlier versions of the Media Bias Chart, here’s a summary of what is new compared to the previous (Media Bias Chart 4.0) version: 1. Each news source is ...Read more

If you’ve been following along with our work on the Media Bias Chart at Ad Fontes Media, you’ve probably heard that we are coming out with an interactive, online version, backed by thousands of rankings that our team of analysts recently completed. Just wanted to let you all know that we are working hard on ...Read more

  We’ve just wrapped up our first major data collection effort for the next edition of the Media Bias Chart, which will be interactive! Here are some highlights of what our dedicated team of analysts, coordinators, and developers accomplished, and what’s next: Each analyst completed over four hours of training on Ad Fontes’ methodology for ...Read more

Yesterday, Senator Elizabeth Warren declined to appear on a town hall for Fox News, and in her explanation for why, she pointed out three salient observations about our media landscape that are key to understanding what we are trying to do at Ad Fontes Media. Even if you do not politically align with Senator Warren, ...Read more

Quite a few people have asked if there are any news aggregators or apps that just serve up the best news sources from the top of the Media Bias Chart, and I'm happy to say that now there is a great one out there! We didn't make it, but we really like it. NeoCortix News ...Read more

For your convenience, here are website headlines from across the media landscape from this morning, the day after the full (redacted) Mueller Report was released. Most people don't visit 40 news sites about one story to compare bias and quality, but that's one of the things we do here, so we hope it helps you ...Read more

Ad Fontes Media is proud to announce its first extensive multi-analyst content ratings research project! Since the first Media Bias Chart was launched, people have been asking for more data and transparency about the news source ratings. Within the next two weeks, we are kicking off a project to provide exactly that. During this project, ...Read more