09/15/2026
🔍💻📰 Here’s Our Annual Simple Chart for Websites, With Fewer Sources and Larger Logos
We first started rating news websites for their bias and reliability back in 2018. A few weeks ago, we achieved a milestone when we fully rated* our 3,000th website!
When you add in podcasts and TV/video sources, we’ve now fully rated more than 4,830 news and information outlets. That’s a lot of valuable information about the reliability and bias of various media outlets, but including that much data into a single chart image has its challenges.
We try to include as many sources as possible on our monthly static charts, but we get complaints that they are too crowded and difficult to read because the source logos are too small. To address this, we started publishing what we call “simple” charts during September. Today we’re releasing the simple Media Bias Chart® for websites. (The simple podcast and TV/video charts will be published later this month.)
What do we mean by “simple”? This chart contains fewer logos, but it still represents a general image of the news landscape. The top middle of the chart (the green box) is a crowded part of the news landscape, so we could only fit some of the very largest news sources there (The New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal, as examples).
You’ll also find some well-known sources that fall outside the green box, such as Daily Beast, Breitbart, The Bulwark and Daily Mail. Near those are the MS NOW and Fox News websites; these ratings include web content only, not TV shows on the MS NOW and Fox News TV networks.
The rest of this chart is filled with websites that aren’t necessarily the largest, but they sit in areas where there aren’t a ton of others; for example, Washington Free Beacon, Wonkette and The Gateway Pundit.
As always, we have magnified a portion of the chart and removed the sections around the edges in order to make the logos as large and readable as possible.
These simple charts do help with visibility, but they don’t help us to solve the question we get most often — people who are looking for a particular source, and it’s not included on that month’s chart image. For example, on this chart you might be wondering, where is AP? It’s basically in the same spot as Reuters, but there’s not enough room to include both logos. BBC? It’s basically between Reuters and The Hill.
This simple Media Bias Chart® features only 37 of the 3,000 websites we’ve rated (find a list of those 37 here). You can download a free, licensed version of this simple, magnified Media Bias Chart® for websites here!
Here’s a list of the sources that fall within the green box on this chart. Our analyst team has found that these sources are generally reliable and minimally biased:
Ballotpedia
Christianity Today
Fox Business (website)
GZERO Media
Newsweek
Orange County Register
Reuters
SF Examiner
The Guardian
The Hill
The New York Times
USAFacts
Wall Street Journal
Washington PostAs I said before, we’ve fully rated more than 4,830 sources, and we have to select only a few dozen of them to put on each static chart in order to keep it readable. That’s why we created an Interactive Media Bias Chart® and a free app for Android and iPhone that allows you to search for sources by name. Both are free (with daily search limits), but for now, the free interactive chart allows you to search for only 250 of our top sources. This won’t be true for long! In a few weeks we’ll be debuting our newest version of the interactive chart, and it allows everyone to search for ANY source we’ve rated!
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*”Fully rated” means we have rated at least our minimum representative sample for a source to appear on our chart. We have evaluated several thousand additional sources on a preliminary basis for various reasons.
