Ad Fontes - Media Bias Chart

Ad Fontes Media

About this app

The Media Bias Chart app by Ad Fontes Media helps users gain a deeper understanding of the bias and reliability of news and news-like sources. An intuitive interface presents an extensive collection of news outlets along with their political bias and reliability assessments based on our robust methodology. This app equips users with the knowledge needed to critically evaluate news sources.

Key Features:
1. Interactive Media Bias Chart: Search thousands of sources including websites, podcasts, and TV shows with an easy-to-use navigation bar. Quickly identify news outlets’ positions, providing a clear overview of their bias and reliability.

2. Detailed Source Profiles: Tap on a logo for more information on that source. See individual articles or episodes plotted on the chart along with scores and links for the most recent ratings. Use the zoom feature to reveal a more granular view.

3. Shareable Images: Save and easily share images of your curated news sources.

4. Filter and Sort Displays: Sort the default display by websites, podcasts, or TV shows. Filter the display by four main reliability categories (reliable, varied, problematic, and unreliable).

5. Real-Time Data: The Media Bias Chart app is regularly updated to reflect the most recent changes made to the Media Bias Chart, based on daily ratings from our analysts.

The Media Bias Chart app by Ad Fontes Media empowers users to make more informed decisions by providing analysis of news and news-like sources. Discover diverse perspectives and develop critical thinking skills. Whether you are a student, professional, or concerned citizen, this app equips you with the tools to navigate the complex media landscape and foster a more informed citizenry. Download now!

Ratings and reviews

My interest in there being an app cooled when: 1. I could add sources from a pick-list but after each add the pick-list returned to the top; 2. after a few additions, a message told me to use the web edition; and 3. the web design felt outdated like something this important could be more visual and less texty. So I'm deleting this now.

Pros: Great resource. Love the search bar and the inclusion of local news organizations. VERY helpful to understand where various news sites land on the bias chart. Cons: I really wish when I zoomed in it made the icons bigger also. I have decent vision, but I struggle to see some of the wording on the various logos. Since I don't know all the sources via personal experience it is difficult to recognize a few of them. I also am not a fan of apps that are only in landscape mode on a phone.

Wow! Version 1.0❗ I've known about & used the plain-image version of Media Bias Chart for about 4 years. It seems to have an excellent reputation among those in the know, sort of the gold standard. I trust it. ♦️— It charts both bias + veracity, two totally different & important separate things. — Because something is biased does not necessarily mean that it is unreliable! And vice versa. Playing around with the Chart vs the actual real news sources, & we can see that. --Doug Bashford

What's new

Change API end point for images