Source Credibility Report Card
A comprehensive analysis of factuality ratings across all 249 sources tracked by Extra Extra. Grades are derived from Media Bias/Fact Check reliability assessments.
Overall GPA
B
2.89 / 4.00 Grade Distribution
A 61 (24%)
B 119 (48%)
C 49 (20%)
D 20 (8%)
Credibility by Political Leaning
Left-Leaning
B avg 3.03
A 18
B 65
C 15
D 0
98 sources tracked
Center / Independent
A avg 3.56
A 41
B 32
C 0
D 0
73 sources tracked
Right-Leaning
C avg 2.08
A 2
B 22
C 34
D 20
78 sources tracked
Key Insights
A
Highest Rated
ABC News (Australia), AFP, Associated Press, Axios, Ballotpedia News, BBC News, BBC World, Bloomberg, CalMatters, CBC News, Christian Science Monitor, Courthouse News, Dallas Morning News, Deutsche Welle, FactCheck.org, Federal News Network, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, France 24, Full Fact, KFF Health News, LA Times, Lawfare, Le Monde (English), Lead Stories, New York Times, NHK World, NPR, PBS NewsHour, Politico, ProPublica, Reason, Reuters, RFI (English), Roll Call, RTÉ News, SCOTUSblog, Semafor, Sky News, Spectrum News NY1, Stars and Stripes, STAT News, SWI swissinfo.ch, Tampa Bay Times, Tangle, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, The Dispatch, The Economist, The Globe and Mail, The Guardian, The Marshall Project, The Minnesota Star Tribune, The New York Sun, The New Yorker, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Seattle Times, The Texas Tribune, Voice of America, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post
D
Lowest Rated
Alpha News, American Thinker, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Daily Mail, NewsBusters, Not the Bee, One America News, PJ Media, Rebel News, RedState, The Epoch Times, The European Conservative, The Gateway Pundit, The National Pulse, The Western Journal, Townhall, Twitchy, WND, ZeroHedge
Best Average
Center / Independent sources average 3.56 GPA
Mixed or Lower
69 of 249 sources (28%) rated C or D
All Sources by Grade
Source Bias Grade Factuality
ABC News (Australia)
Center
A
High Factuality
AFP
Center
A
High Factuality
Associated Press
Center
A
High Factuality
Axios
Center
A
High Factuality
Ballotpedia News
Center
A
High Factuality
BBC News
Center
A
High Factuality
BBC World
Center
A
High Factuality
Bloomberg
Center
A
High Factuality
CalMatters
Center
A
High Factuality
CBC News
Left
A
High Factuality
Christian Science Monitor
Center
A
High Factuality
Courthouse News
Center
A
High Factuality
Dallas Morning News
Left
A
High Factuality
Deutsche Welle
Center
A
High Factuality
FactCheck.org
Center
A
High Factuality
Federal News Network
Center
A
High Factuality
Financial Times
Center
A
High Factuality
Foreign Affairs
Center
A
High Factuality
France 24
Center
A
High Factuality
Full Fact
Center
A
High Factuality
KFF Health News
Center
A
High Factuality
LA Times
Left
A
High Factuality
Lawfare
Center
A
High Factuality
Le Monde (English)
Left
A
High Factuality
Lead Stories
Center
A
High Factuality
New York Times
Left
A
High Factuality
NHK World
Center
A
High Factuality
NPR
Left
A
High Factuality
PBS NewsHour
Center
A
High Factuality
Politico
Left
A
High Factuality
ProPublica
Left
A
High Factuality
Reason
Right
A
High Factuality
Reuters
Center
A
High Factuality
RFI (English)
Center
A
High Factuality
Roll Call
Center
A
High Factuality
RTÉ News
Center
A
High Factuality
SCOTUSblog
Center
A
High Factuality
Semafor
Center
A
High Factuality
Sky News
Center
A
High Factuality
Spectrum News NY1
Center
A
High Factuality
Stars and Stripes
Center
A
High Factuality
STAT News
Center
A
High Factuality
SWI swissinfo.ch
Center
A
High Factuality
Tampa Bay Times
Left
A
High Factuality
Tangle
Center
A
High Factuality
The Atlantic
Left
A
High Factuality
The Boston Globe
Left
A
High Factuality
The Dispatch
Center
A
High Factuality
The Economist
Center
A
High Factuality
The Globe and Mail
Center
A
High Factuality
The Guardian
Left
A
High Factuality
The Marshall Project
Left
A
High Factuality
The Minnesota Star Tribune
Left
A
High Factuality
The New York Sun
Right
A
High Factuality
The New Yorker
Left
A
High Factuality
The Philadelphia Inquirer
Left
A
High Factuality
The Seattle Times
Left
A
High Factuality
The Texas Tribune
Center
A
High Factuality
Voice of America
Center
A
High Factuality
Wall Street Journal
Center
A
High Factuality
Washington Post
Left
A
High Factuality
1819 News
Right
B
Mostly Factual
ABC News
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Al Jazeera
Center
B
Mostly Factual
AL.com
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Anchorage Daily News
Left
B
Mostly Factual
ANSA (English)
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Arizona Mirror
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Boston Herald
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Breaking Defense
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Business Insider
Left
B
Mostly Factual
CBS News
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Chalkbeat
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Chicago Sun-Times
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Chicago Tribune
Center
B
Mostly Factual
City Journal
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Cleveland.com
Left
B
Mostly Factual
CNBC
Center
B
Mostly Factual
CNN
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Colorado Newsline
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Commentary
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Defense News
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Defense One
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Democracy Docket
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Democracy Now!
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Der Spiegel (English)
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Deseret News
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Drop Site News
Left
B
Mostly Factual
El País (English)
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Euronews
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Florida Phoenix
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Forbes
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Foreign Policy
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Georgia Recorder
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Gothamist
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Government Executive
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Grist
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Haaretz
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Honolulu Civil Beat
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Houston Chronicle
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Iowa Capital Dispatch
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Kansas Reflector
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Kyodo News
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Las Vegas Review-Journal
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Law Dork
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Louisiana Illuminator
Left
B
Mostly Factual
MarketWatch
Center
B
Mostly Factual
MassLive
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Miami Herald
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Michigan Advance
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Military Times
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Military.com
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Minnesota Reformer
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Missouri Independent
Left
B
Mostly Factual
MLive
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Mother Jones
Left
B
Mostly Factual
National Post
Right
B
Mostly Factual
National Review
Right
B
Mostly Factual
NBC News
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Nebraska Examiner
Left
B
Mostly Factual
NewsNation
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Newsweek
Center
B
Mostly Factual
NJ.com
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Ohio Capital Journal
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Orange County Register
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Oregon Capital Chronicle
Left
B
Mostly Factual
PennLive
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Quillette
Right
B
Mostly Factual
Radio Free Europe/RL
Center
B
Mostly Factual
RealClearDefense
Right
B
Mostly Factual
RealClearInvestigations
Right
B
Mostly Factual
RealClearMarkets
Right
B
Mostly Factual
RealClearPolitics
Right
B
Mostly Factual
RealClearScience
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Religion News Service
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Route Fifty
Center
B
Mostly Factual
SFGATE
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Slate
Left
B
Mostly Factual
South China Morning Post
Center
B
Mostly Factual
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Straight Arrow News
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Talking Points Memo
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Tennessee Lookout
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The 19th
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The American Conservative
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The American Prospect
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Baltimore Sun
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Bulwark
Center
B
Mostly Factual
The Center Square
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The Denver Post
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Detroit News
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The Free Press
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The Hill
Center
B
Mostly Factual
The Independent
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Intercept
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Japan Times
Center
B
Mostly Factual
The Jerusalem Post
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The Lever
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Nation
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The National Interest
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The New Republic
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Oregonian
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Telegraph
Right
B
Mostly Factual
The Times of Israel
Center
B
Mostly Factual
The Verge
Left
B
Mostly Factual
The Week
Left
B
Mostly Factual
TIME
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Toronto Star
Left
B
Mostly Factual
UnHerd
Right
B
Mostly Factual
UPI
Center
B
Mostly Factual
USA Today
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Vanity Fair
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Votebeat
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Vox
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Washington Monthly
Left
B
Mostly Factual
WIRED
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Wisconsin Examiner
Left
B
Mostly Factual
Yahoo Finance
Center
B
Mostly Factual
Yle News
Center
B
Mostly Factual
AlterNet
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
AMAC Newsline
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
American Greatness
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Bearing Arms
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Brownstone Institute
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Campus Reform
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Catholic News Agency
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
CBN News
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Common Dreams
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Crooks and Liars
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Daily Express
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Daily Kos
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Daily Signal
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Daily Wire
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
First Things
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Fox Business
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Fox News
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Free Beacon
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
GB News
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Hot Air
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
HuffPost
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
In These Times
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Issues & Insights
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Jacobin
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Just the News
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Legal Insurrection
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
MSNBC
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Newsmax
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
NY Post
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Power Line
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Raw Story
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Rolling Stone
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Salon
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Sky News Australia
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Spiked
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The American Mind
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The American Spectator
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The Blaze
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The Christian Post
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The College Fix
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The Daily Beast
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
The Federalist
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
The Sun (UK)
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
TheGrio
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Truthout
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Washington Examiner
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Washington Times
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
WORLD
Right
C
Mixed Factuality
Zeteo
Left
C
Mixed Factuality
Alpha News
Right
D
Low Factuality
American Thinker
Right
D
Low Factuality
Breitbart
Right
D
Low Factuality
Daily Caller
Right
D
Low Factuality
Daily Mail
Right
D
Low Factuality
NewsBusters
Right
D
Low Factuality
Not the Bee
Right
D
Low Factuality
One America News
Right
D
Low Factuality
PJ Media
Right
D
Low Factuality
Rebel News
Right
D
Low Factuality
RedState
Right
D
Low Factuality
The Epoch Times
Right
D
Low Factuality
The European Conservative
Right
D
Low Factuality
The Gateway Pundit
Right
D
Low Factuality
The National Pulse
Right
D
Low Factuality
The Western Journal
Right
D
Low Factuality
Townhall
Right
D
Low Factuality
Twitchy
Right
D
Low Factuality
WND
Right
D
Low Factuality
ZeroHedge
Right
D
Low Factuality
Grading Methodology
Each source receives a letter grade (A through D) based on its factual reliability assessment from Media Bias/Fact Check, one of the most widely cited media credibility rating organizations.
A
High Factuality
Strong sourcing, minimal failed fact checks
B
Mostly Factual
Generally accurate, occasional lapses
C
Mixed Factuality
Misleading framing or unverified claims
D
Low Factuality
Frequent inaccuracies or propaganda
The GPA score converts grades to a 4.0 scale (A=4, B=3, C=2, D=1) and averages across sources. This allows comparison between bias categories while accounting for different numbers of sources in each group.
Ratings are updated periodically as Media Bias/Fact Check revises their assessments. Individual articles may vary in quality regardless of a source's overall grade.