Ad Fontes Media is an American media watchdog organization that monitors and reports on media issues.
Background
Ad Fontes Media was founded in 2018 by attorney Vanessa Otero. It emerged from Otero’s blog All Generalizations Are False, founded in 2014.
Media Bias Chart
Their Media Bias Chart ranks organizations by overall source reliability and political bias, resulting in a pyramid or bell curve 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)
All Generalizations Are False (allgeneralizationsarefalse.com) [archive]
- redirects to adfontesmedia.com
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
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