Newsweek Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Newsweek in the Middle category of bias and as Generally Reliable/Analysis OR Other Issues in terms of reliability. Newsweek is a news magazine and website based in New York City and distributed around the world in English and in five other languages. Founded in 1933, Newsweek is owned by Johnathan Davis and Dev Pragad.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 37.44

Bias: -2.73

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
Moms Are in Crisis. The GOP Wants to Keep Them There | Opinion -18.67 26
Donald Trump Likely to Face Legal Disappointment: Legal Analyst 0 41.33
Supreme Court Sends Donald Trump's Critics Into a Meltdown 7 38
AI Isn't Ready to Control Your Accelerator, Experts Say 0 44.67
Russia Implementing 'Human Wave' Assaults Without Armored Vehicles: Kyiv 0 44.67
Gavin Newsom Under Fire for Exempting Donor From $20 Minimum Wage Law 10.67 29
'Survivor' 46 Recap: Sometimes Big Egos Make Even Bigger Losers 0 32
Donald Trump Gets a Solution to His Cash Problem 0.33 37.33
Joe Biden's TikTok Strategy 0 44
Supreme Court Justices Offer Clue Into Ruling That Could Upend Social Media 0 42.33
Hunter Biden May Have 'Blew Away' His Own Defense: Legal Analyst 1 38
Ricoh becoming a digital services firm, seeking "Fulfillment through Work" 0 37
Donald Trump Jr. Says Mysterious Substance Sent to His Home in Florida 1 41.33
Houston No. 1 in AP Poll. But Do Cougars Have Best March Madness Resume? 0 42.33
NATO Members Pledge to Provide Ukraine With New Drones -1.33 45.67
Donald Trump Claims 'Liberals and Marxists' Are Voting for Nikki Haley -0.67 42.67
Sinking of Russian Warship Sparks Wave of Valentine's Day Memes 0.67 41.33
Trump Says He's Glad That Putin Prefers Biden to Win the 2024 Election 0 44
Was Jon Stewart's Return a Success? Numbers, and Commentators, Say Maybe 0 44.67
Taiwan's Wait for $19 Billion in US-Made Weapons Compounds China Threat 0 46.67
Germany Pledges to Give Ukraine '4 Times More' Ammunition 0 46.33
Russian Official Contradicts Kremlin on Ukraine Peace Plan 0 43.67
Plane Door Falls Off Over New York 0 29
Jon Stewart Tackles Gaza on 'Daily Show' Return -12 41.33
China Eyes Russia's Far East as Putin's 'History Lesson' Backfires 0 45

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