People are dying to get back outside and away from their screens as COVID-19 restrictions ease and society slowly returns to normal. With that in mind, it’s fine to take breaks from the often overwhelming online news cycle. But you can’t totally tune out. Our tools are here to help you...

Click here for Part 1 of this series: The Press in Colonial America and Creation of the 1st Amendment and Part 2: The 1800s . Today, we hold journalists and media outlets accountable to journalistic code of ethics and a set of standards, which include truth, transparency, and objectivity...

From the Center This viewpoint is from a writer rated Center. Many years ago, I worked briefly as the host of a political talk show at a Bay Area radio station. It did not go well. The station’s executive producer quickly grew frustrated with me because of my insistence in talking about...

Today, we hold journalists and media outlets accountable to journalistic code of ethics and a set of standards, which include truth, transparency, and objectivity. When journalism strays from objective fact, the result is biased news . And though it takes different forms in the digital...

A lot happened in 2020, and media bias could be seen in almost all of it. As we put a chaotic 12 months in the rearview mirror, let’s briefly return to the year’s biggest stories in the form of a media bias calendar. From conflict in the Middle East and the start of the global pandemic to...

The world of cable TV news used to be such a simple place. Fox was conservative, MSNBC was liberal and CNN was in the middle. But that was before Donald Trump became president, and those easy classifications have become much more complicated. During the 2016 presidential campaign, CNN...

In reporting on Joe Biden’s recent announcement of his White House communications staff , different sides of the media sometimes focused on completely different facts. Biden, who’s widely projected to be confirmed as the next U.S. president by the Electoral College next month, recently...

Generally, you shouldn’t be able to tell who journalists are voting for in the 2020 presidential election when you read their news story or look at their website. But sometimes it can be more than obvious, even when it comes to the almighty fact checkers. We went around to six fact-...

As the 2020 election approaches, more and more news coverage is devoted to opinion polls. This coverage aims to accurately portray how the American public feels about political candidates. However, polls bring with them a host of statistical complexities and political implications that...