Library: Newspaper Databases: Evaluating News

Is Your Newsfeed Lying to You?
Toolkit for identifying false and misleading news using the Parkside library and other resources.

Finding News on the Internet

Google News
"Google News is a computer-generated news site that aggregates headlines from news sources worldwide, groups similar stories together and displays them according to each reader's personalized interests."
Newseum: Today's Front Pages
"Through a special agreement with more than 800 newspapers worldwide, the Newseum displays these front pages each day on its website. The front pages are in their original, unedited form, and some may contain material that is deemed objectionable to some visitors."

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Fact-Checking

Fact Check.org
"We are a nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters....We monitor the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players.... a project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania."
Not Real News
A weekly roundup from the Associated Press "of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these are legit, even though they were shared widely on social media."
PolitiFact
Pulitizer-prize winning website whose staff fact-check statements made by US politicians.
Snopes
Fact-checks and documents rumors, urban legends, news, and other information that spreads across the internet..

Learning to Check Facts and Evaluate Online Information

Check, Please! Starter Course
A free online course that provides practical experience with evaluating online information.
Verification Handbook
Free ebook written by journalists about how to verify content such as images and videos.
Web Literacy for Student Fact-Checkers by Mike Caullfied
A free ebook with techniques for fact-checking and evaluating social media.
News Evaluator
Check your skills! Evaluate the social media posts on this site and get feedback on your responses.

Evaluating Partisan Bias

These sites evaluate the overall partisan bias of news sources in all media as a whole (e.g. The New York Times, CNN, Slate.com). Look for the same source in all three sites to see how they compare.

All Generalizations Are False
Home of the Media Bias Chart. Developed by attorney Vanessa Otero to systematically evaluate the partisan bias and overall quality of selected news sites.
All Sides
All Sides gathers news articles from a wide range of sources and identifies their bias. Compare how different publications report the same news.
Media Bias/Fact Check
Rates the bias level of 800+ news sources using detailed methodology. Look at sources in different bias categories, or search for a source to see its bias rating.