Salt Lake Tribune Bias and Reliability

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Bias: Middle

Reliability: Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting

Overview

Ad Fontes Media rates Salt Lake Tribune in the Middle category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability. Salt Lake Tribune is a weekly newspaper and website based in Salt Lake City, Utah. In October 2019 it transformed from a for-profit company to an independent nonprofit corporation. The Tribune is owned by businessman Paul Huntsman and is governed by a board of directors. The newspaper began in 1871 as The Tribune & Utah Mining Gazette, and has earned two Pulitzer Prizes.

Overall Score

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

Reliability: 46.41

Bias: -1.22

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
Las Vegas lawyer indicted in ‘slip-and-fall’ scheme that targeted Latter-day Saints 0 44
Romney accused of providing ‘aid and comfort’ to Democrats in proposed Emery County GOP censure 2 43.67
Gwyneth Paltrow verdict: Jury reaches decision in lawsuit over Park City ski crash 0 41.33
Wasatch Hollow is flooded ‘by design’ — and could stay that way for weeks 0 44
Donald Trump has been indicted, becoming the 1st ex-president charged with crime 9.33 43
Salt Lake Bees to open Smith’s Ballpark to full capacity 0 43
Justin Thulin: In replacing Cheney, GOP chooses the Big Lie and power over truth and democracy 3.67 35.33
Utah coronavirus cases continue to fall, but deaths on the rise 0 50
Mike Lee is 1 of 2 senators voting against first-ever Black secretary of defense -1 42.67
Intermountain Healthcare is preparing to postpone some surgeries because of rising COVID-19 cases 0 50
Utah Jazz take Kansas center Udoka Azubuike at No. 27, Syracuse wing Elijah Hughes at 39; trade center Tony Bradley 0 47.33
Utah’s COVID-19 vaccine plan: Front-line health workers as soon as December, all Utahns by July 0 51
As Utah’s coronavirus hospitalizations rise, health officials debate guidance for Thanksgiving -0.67 49.67
Sam Merrill picked by Milwaukee Bucks, but BYU’s Yoeli Childs goes undrafted in NBA Draft -0.33 45
Robert Gehrke: Utah’s governor gets an earful from lawmakers upset by his coronavirus orders -9.67 36.67
14 more Utah schools shift online this week, including the first elementary to have an outbreak 0 50
Uintah High’s football season ends after outbreak of COVID-19 among players 0 49
Carly Ferrin: Adapting our schools to COVID realities -3 37
DWR closes wildlife area to target shooting -0.67 44.67
EPA guts plan that would have slashed pollution from Utah coal plants -3.33 46.67
A Utah inmate with COVID-19 has died as the virus spreads through the prison -3.33 49.33
Salt Lake County election results show the limits of campaign spending 0 49.67
Utah lawmakers continue to debate governor’s emergency powers as coronavirus wears on 6 48
Salt Lake County takes stock of COVID-19 damage as it prepares next year’s budget 0 48.33
Utah coronavirus cases up 1,081 on Tuesday -1 49.67

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