Evaluating Sources

Annenberg Public Policy Center, Univ. of Pennsylvania. This source is good for checking information's accuracy.

TruthBeTold.news (formerly called HU Insight) is a non-profit, non-partisan website and digital network, run and edited from Howard University’s Department of Media, Journalism and Film in the School of Communications. It uses journalistic skills and crowdsourced information to play a leading role by examining claims about the black community in public debate. It also serves as a fun but, serious learning environment for students to teach them advanced reporting tools in a way that is engaging and allows them to use the social media skills they already possess.

PolitiFact fact checks politicians, public speakers, media outlets, including social media memes, and the news. Controversial statements are presented and rated for their accuracy with the details of the issue. This source is good for checking the accuracy of political statements.

El Detector de Mentiras es una nueva plataforma de fact-checking–la primera en español en Estados Unidos–creada por Univision Data para promover la verificación de las afirmaciones que candidatos, organizaciones y otros actores políticos lanzan al público durante la carrera hacia la Presidencia de los Estados Unidos.

The Reporters’ Lab maintains a database of global fact-checking sites.

This source is good for checking the accuracy of the statistics used in the news.

The Poynter Institute is a global leader in journalism. It is the world’s leading instructor, innovator, convener and resource for anyone who aspires to engage and inform citizens in 21st Century democracies.

Who owns what?

An interactive database of companies that own news properties in the United States

All media sources have a degree of bias in reporting, some more than others. The purpose of this website is to be a resource for those who care about media bias. Media bias on this website is determined through research and consumer opinions.

Unlike regular news services, AllSides exposes bias and provides multiple angles on the same story so you can quickly get the full picture, not just one slant.

An annual overview of trends and ownership in the media from the Pew Research Center

Media Monitors Network (MMN) is NOT just 'another' news web-site or magazine but a non-profit, non-bias and non-political platform which mainly helps to prevail the whole truth and generally facilitate answers to any disputed, controversial topic being broadcast, web cast, published, distributed or telecast in the world media. MMN is seeking for the truth in most critical "hot topics" which can often be twisted by the world media.

A nonpartisan research and educational organization which conducts scientific studies of news and entertainment media. CMPA's goal is to provide an empirical basis for ongoing debates over media coverage and impact through well-documented, timely, and readable studies.