Snopes is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues. It is specifically concerned with debunking urban legends and false rumors that spread online.
Resources
Snopes (snopes.com)
media
Credder is an American media monitoring organization that reviews media content. They believe that “news should compete for credibility, not clicks.”
They offer a two-tier rating system similar to film rating site Rotten Tomatoes, where verified critics and users review media, which then gets a fresh or a rotten tomato.
Credder uses cheddar:
Gold Cheese is featured next to articles, authors, and outlets with a rating of 60% or higher.
Moldy Cheese is featured next to articles, authors, and outlets with a rating of 59% or less.
Browser extension
Credder has a browser extension similar to NewsGuard’s two-tier rating system that shows the applicable rating of an article or outlet.
Resources
Credder (credder.com)
Twitter (twitter.com)
Allsides is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues. They present news topics clustered by three points of view: center, left, and right.
With some exceptions, gender critical viewpoints become more frequent based on how conservative the publication is.
Media Bias Chart
According to their 2019 Media Bias Chart version 1.1, these are their ratings for top online media outlets.
Left
- Alternet
- CNN opinion
- Democracy Now!
- The Daily Beast
- HuffPost
- The Intercept_
- Jacobin
- Mother Jones
- MSNBC
- The New Yorker
- The New York Times opinion
- The Nation
- Slate
- Vox
Lean Left
- ABC
- The Atlantic
- BuzzFeed News
- CBS
- CNN online news
- The Economist
- The Guardian
- NBC
- The New York Times online news
- NPR opinion
- Politico
- TIME
- The Washington Post
Center
- AP
- BBC
- Bloomberg
- The Christian Science Monitor
- NPR online news
- Reuters
- The Hill
- USA Today
- The Wall Street Journal online news
Lean right
- Fox online news
- Reason
- The Wall Street Journal opinion
- The Washington Examiner
- The Washington Times
Right
- The American Spectator
- Breitbart
- The Blaze
- CBN
- The Daily Caller
- Daily Wire
- Fox News opinion
- The Federalist
- National Review
- New York Post
- Newsmax
Resources
Allsides (allsides.com)
Ad Fontes Media is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues.
Media Bias Chart
Their Media Bias Chart ranks organizations by overall source reliability and political bias, resulting in a pyramid with what they consider the most reliable and least biased outlets at the pinnacle.
Organizations in their top tier of neutral/balanced fact reporting:
Organizations they rate as neutral or balanced complex analysis:
- Axios
- BBC
- Business Insider
- CBS News
- CNN
- The Economist
- Financial Times
- Foreign Policy
- Fortune
- The Hill
- Marketwatch
- New York Times
- Politico
- Quartz
- Talking Points Memo
- theSkimm
- The Washington Post
Resources
Ad Fontes Media (adfontesmedia.com)
Center for Media and Public Affairs (CMPA) is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues.
The organization became less active around 2014 and has apparently been inactive since 2016.
Resources
Center for Media and Public Affairs (cmpa.gmu.edu)
The American Independent is an American media organization.
Resources
The American Independent (americanindependent.com)