
Ad Fontes
Ad Fontes Media is a public benefit corporation that rates the news. The company helps businesses, consumers, educators, and platforms navigate the complex and dynamic news landscape and also provides data, tools, and educational resources for all stakeholders in quality news media.
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- News • Feb 17, 2025 | substack.com — Your Freedoms Under Siege
- News • Feb 10, 2025 | Search Engine Land — Is Google biased? An SEO veteran’s perspective
- News • Dec 19, 2024 | Mediaite — Dan Abrams Announces Decision to End NewsNation Show
- News • Dec 16, 2024 | The Current — The power of news advertising: A win-win for marketers and democracy
- News • Dec 4, 2024 | Apple Podcasts — E24: A Loaded Question from a Stranger Sparked by a T-shirt Slogan - Vanessa Otero
- News • Dec 2, 2024 | VideoWeek — Retooling Brand Safety in a Post-GARM World
- News • Nov 22, 2024 | townhall.com — The View Forced to Read Three Legal Notes Within Minutes of One Another Following Trump AG Appointment
- News • Nov 14, 2024 | Radio Ink — LeGeyt, Portnoy, Paskalis Take Up The Fight To Save Local News
- News • Oct 31, 2024 | AdExchanger — Brands Can Avoid Election Misinformation On YouTube – But Blocking News Isn’t The Answer
- News • Oct 25, 2024 | dailyfreepress.com — Hasan Piker drinks champagne: Horseshoe theory | Con-Current Events
- News • Sep 25, 2024 | Yahoo! News — Pixability and Ad Fontes Media Join Forces to Empower Advertisers to Safely Support News Content on YouTube
- News • Sep 25, 2024 | Broadcasting Cable — Pixability, Ad Fontes Team Up for Ad Safety in News Content on YouTube
- News • Aug 29, 2024 | USAFacts — USAFacts and bias: Why we care about nonpartisanship
- News • Aug 19, 2024 | AdExchanger — Don’t Cancel Brand Safety – Improve It
- News • Aug 14, 2024 | The Pinnacle Gazette — Musk And Media Giants Challenge Brand Safety Norms
- News • Aug 13, 2024 | GlobeNewswire News Room — Basis Technologies Integrates with Ad Fontes Media and Cuebiq Group, LLC to Fortify Top Programmatic Advertising Status
- News • Aug 13, 2024 | Globe Newswire — Basis Technologies Integrates with Ad Fontes Media and Cuebiq Group, LLC to Fortify Top Programmatic Advertising Status
- News • Aug 7, 2024 | The Drum — Fortune 500 brand ads seen next to porn & racial slurs, with IAS & DoubleVerify in the mix
- News • Jul 2, 2024 | GlobeNewswire News Room — Channel Factory and Ad Fontes Media launch Political Campaign Digital Media Solution focused on brand safe and reliable news content Ahead of the 2024 US Presidential Election
- News • Jul 1, 2024 | Google Patent — Display and analysis system for media content
- News • Jul 1, 2024 | PR Newswire — Stagwell's (STGW) 'Future of News' Initiative Heads to Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity with Panels Highlighting the Power of News to Drive Business Results for Marketers
- News • Jun 18, 2024 | The Current — At Cannes, advertising leaders sound the alarm on the state of news
- News • Jun 14, 2024 | Adweek Online — Need an Insider's Guide to Cannes Lions? ADWEEK's 3-Part Podcast Series Has You Covered
- News • May 17, 2024 | Radio Ink — Breaking the Myth? Gen Z and Mothers Unfazed by News Ads
- News • May 6, 2024 | pgsignal.com — Making the News Safe for Brands
- News • Apr 30, 2024 | PR Newswire — Stagwell Announces 'Future of News' Summit on May 15 Featuring Trailblazing Panelist Discussions and 50,000-Respondent Study Revealing the Importance of Investing in News
- News • Apr 22, 2024 | Connecticut Public — A look at juries, from '12 Angry Men' to the Trump trial
- News • Apr 18, 2024 | TVTechnology — Scripps News Inks Deal with Ad Fontes Media to Rate Content for Reliability and Bias
- News • Apr 18, 2024 | ZDNET — 80% of people think deepfakes will impact elections. Here are three ways you can prepare
- News • Apr 17, 2024 | LinkedIn — Ad Fontes Media on LinkedIn: Ad Fontes Media features 60 TV/video sources on March Media Bias Chart…
- News • Apr 17, 2024 | TVTechnology — Scripps News Inks Deal with Ad Fontes Media to Rate Content for Reliability and Bias
- News • Apr 16, 2024 | Radio & Television Business Report — Ad Fontes Media Brings A Bias Meter To Scripps News
- News • Apr 16, 2024 | Spotify — Episode 20: Lou Paskalis, Chief Strategy Officer, Ad Fontes Media
- News • Apr 15, 2024 | Apple Podcasts — EP 78: Breaking Down Media Bias In America Mo News - The Interview
- News • Apr 11, 2024 | Radio Ink — Paskalis: News Is ‘Best Performing Channel’ For Ad Investments
- News • Apr 10, 2024 | Association of National Advertisers — Programmatic Transparency: Made for Advertising Websites Are Too "Good" to Be True
- News • Apr 1, 2024 | Madhive — XO With Spence: Featuring Industry Legend Lou Paskalis
- News • Mar 16, 2024 | Spotify — The Value of News in the War on Truth
- News • Mar 5, 2024 | LinkedIn — Marketecture Media on LinkedIn: Ad Fontes Media: Making news sites work for advertising
- News • Feb 23, 2024 | AdExchanger — It’s MFA Freedom Day! Celebrate By Fixing Your Supply Chain
- News • Feb 18, 2024 | semafor.com — Ad tech company makes case for journalism
- News • Jan 31, 2024 | LinkedIn — Ad Fontes Media on LinkedIn: #mediabiaschart #checkyourbias #knowyoursources
- News • Jan 24, 2024 | Ship Now — Connors Institute enters partnership with Ad Fontes Media’s Media Bias Chart
- News • Jan 22, 2024 | LinkedIn — Download the Media Bias Chart 12.0! | Ad Fontes Media posted on the topic
- News • Jan 19, 2024 | Radio Ink — Saving Local News, One Ad at a Time
- News • Jan 5, 2024 | Spotify — Media & a Chance Beach Encounter: My 1:1 With Lou Paskalis
- News • Dec 11, 2023 | pod.link — Timeless Leadership
- News • Dec 8, 2023 | iHeart — Taylor Swift, AI Alliance, University Presidents, and Guest Lou Paskalis
- News • Dec 5, 2023 | The Washington Times — Supporters, critics spar over California law on teaching media misinformation in public schools
- News • Nov 16, 2023 | Digiday — The case for and against brand safety
- News • Nov 10, 2023 | 404 Media — Advertisers Don’t Want Sites Like Jezebel to Exist
- News • Nov 6, 2023 | TV News Check — Nexstar Launching Series Of Media Symposiums
- News • Oct 29, 2023| People Who Read People: A Psychology Podcast - A podcast examining human behavior and psychology, hosted by Zachary Elwood. — Can recognizing and reducing bias in news help with polarization?, with Vanessa Otero
- News • Oct 17, 2023 | AdExchanger — Brands, Please Don’t Add ‘Israel’ And ‘Hamas’ To Your Keyword Blocklists
- News • Oct 10, 2023 | In Reality podcast — How To Make Advertising An Ally For Truth
- News • Oct 3, 2023 | Ad Age — Made for Advertising websites—what brands need to know about potential clickbait
- News • Sep 28, 2023 | Fortune — Clickbait websites could be siphoning $17 billion a year away from quality journalism–and brands don’t even know they’re paying for ads there
- News • Sep 28, 2023 | Alliance for Audited Media — 5 Ways AAM Publisher Data Reaches the Media Marketplace
- News • Sep 27, 2023 |Apple Podcasts — Big Technology Podcast LinkedIn
- News • Sep 27, 2023 | The Drum — New parameters define spammy ‘made for advertising’ sites, but media buyers remain wary
- News • Sep 15, 2023 | TheWrap — The Ad Industry Bailed on News – Can AI Offer a Way Back? | PRO Insight
- News • Sep 13, 2023 | MarTech Series — Why Measuring Reliability and Bias in Media Matters
- News • Sep 12, 2023 | The Dispatch — Did the Biden Admin Violate the First Amendment?
- News • Sep 12, 2023 | Straight Arrow News — Americans say media bias divides the nation. This chart shows most polarizing.
- News • Sep 7, 2023 | Mediaite — Major Digital News Outlets Ranked: Who’s Biased, Who’s Reliable?
- News • Aug 28, 2023 |Mediaite — Cable News Shows and Networks Ranked For Bias and Accuracy
- News • Aug 28, 2023 | campaignlive.com — It’s time for brands to put news on their ‘learning agendas’
- News • Aug 25, 2023 |Poynter — Letter to the editor: What Poynter’s critique misses about the Media Bias Chart
- News • Aug 24, 2023 |VideoWeek — AI is Driving the Proliferation of Made for Advertising Websites
- News • Aug 22, 2023 | southeastiowaunion.com — Woe, Ad Fontes Media Bias Chart be upon ye
- News • Aug 1, 2023 |Poynter — Opinion | Why I decided to rate the news
- News • Aug 1, 2023 |The Drum — Amid summer of media discontent, try investing in creators and news instead
- News • Jul 24, 2023 | Adweek Online — Why the Advertising Industry Needs Standards on Spammy ‘Made for Advertising’ Sites
- News • Jul 19, 2023 |America's Newspapers — 3 tools to make media companies stand out in the age of AI
- Funding Round • Jul 12, 2023 |Ad Fontes Media raised $4,200,000 / Series A from Aion Ventures and 2 other investors
- News • Jul 12, 2023 | AdExchanger — Ad Fontes Raises $4.2 Million To Confront Misinformation And Bias In Media
- News • Jun 28, 2023 | Beet.TV - The Root to the Media Revolution — Advertisers Have Moral & Business Reasons To Support News, Paskalis Says
- News • Jun 26, 2023 | AdExchanger — Cannes Contemplations: 5 Takeaways From The 2023 Event
- News • Jun 26, 2023 |Digiday — WTF are made-for-advertising sites (MFAs)
- News • Jun 26, 2023 | Adweek Online — If You Give a Damn About Your Brand Reputation, Get Back Into News
- News • Jun 20, 2023 | Fast Company — Let’s bring $1 billion back to journalism
- News • Jun 14, 2023 | sightly.com — Episode 9 – Vanessa Otero, CEO & Founder of Ad Fontes Media
- News • Jun 14, 2023 | Current Affairs — A Teacher Explains Why Politics Belong In The Classroom
- News • May 12, 2023 | The Business Times — Twitter taps NBC ad chief to take over as CEO from Musk
- News • May 12, 2023 |Time — Elon Musk Picks Linda Yaccarino as Next Twitter CEO
- News • May 10, 2023 | Yahoo Finance — Tucker Carlson's new Twitter show could spell doom for Elon Musk
- News • Apr 15, 2023 | TechCrunch — This Week in Apps: Newsrooms leave Twitter, Reels expands, Android 14 arrives
- News • Apr 14, 2023 | the Guardian — PBS quits Twitter after being labeled ‘government-funded media’
- News • Apr 5, 2023 | Wall Street Journal — Media Veteran Lou Paskalis Joins Group to Encourage Brands to Advertise on News
- News • Mar 22, 2023 | RealClearInvestigations — The Problematic Rise of Media Literacy Education
- News • Feb 9, 2023 | Editor and Publisher — Alliance for Audited Media, Ad Fontes Media partner to launch Media Bias Chart for audited publishers
- News • Feb 8, 2023 | Alliance for Audited Media — Ad Fontes’ Vanessa Otero on How Media Bias Ratings Elevate Trust in the Industry
- News • Jan 18, 2023 | MarTech Series — MarTech Interview with Dan Granger, CEO and Founder of Oxford Road
- News • Jan 5, 2023 | Nieman Lab — Partisan media offers easier-to-read political news than mainstream outlets, study suggests
- News • Jan 2, 2023 | Anchor — The ingredients of a good media diet, with Vanessa Otero
- News • Dec 21, 2022 | The Washington Times — Twitter disclosures spur demand from Americans across political spectrum for online censorship probe
- News • Dec 17, 2022 | The Black Wall Street Times — BWSTimes ranks among America’s “most reliable sources for news”
- News • Nov 29, 2022 | EIN News — The Published Reporter® Rated Less Bias, More Reliable Than Several Major News Organizations
- Funding Round • Nov 16, 2022 | Ad Fontes Media raised $1,594,224 / Series Unknown
- News • Nov 4, 2022 | Newsweek — Twitter Worker Who Pointed Out Right-Wing Bias on Platform Fired by Musk
- News • Oct 26, 2022 | PCMAG — Be Careful What You Post: How to Tell the Difference Between Fact and Fake News
- News • Oct 24, 2022 | Advisor Perspectives — The Best Media Sources for Clients
- News • Oct 18, 2022 | PRWeb — Ad Fontes Media Adds Comscore Digital Audience Data To Data Platform
- News • Oct 15, 2022 | timesnewswire.com — The Truth Is Dying: The Epoch Times Rules the World
- News • Sep 27, 2022 | The Hill — Journalism competition bill would benefit the radical right
- News • Sep 14, 2022 | TechSpective — Sam Curry Talks about Misinformation Online and ‘Doing Your Own Research’
- News • Aug 3, 2022 | Information Professionals Association — #107 Vanessa Otero on News Ecosystem Health
- News • Jul 28, 2022 | The Focus — Is NewsNation conservative or liberal? Chris Cuomo gets primetime show
- News • Jul 14, 2022 | Route Bay City — Your guide to becoming an informed voter
- News • Jun 14, 2022 | EducationNC — Perspective | How to make digital citizenship relevant to students using current events
- News • May 25, 2022 | sharonmcmahon.com — Episode 133: Consume Smarter: Recognizing News Media Bias with Vanessa Otero
- News • May 13, 2022 | NewsNation — What the media bias chart reveals about CNN and Fox News | Dan Abrams Live
- News • May 9, 2022 | Washington Post — How will Elon Musk change social media?
- News • Mar 1, 2022 | NewscastStudio — NewsNation touts its balance using visual of tower of hot button issues
- News • Feb 27, 2022 | KnowTechie — 7 ways to avoid becoming a misinformation superspreader
- News • Feb 22, 2022 | The Denver VOICE — Media literacy in a changing information landscape
- News • Feb 8, 2022 | Havasu News — Rich Macke: Mainstream media, bias and you!
- News • Feb 2, 2022 | Psychology Today — How to Spot Fake Health News
- News • Jan 26, 2022 | Marketing Podcast Network — Solving the Current Media Bias (Good Luck) with Vanessa Otero
- News • Dec 27, 2021 | swiftheadline — This is one reason why being online felt so bad in 2021
- News • Dec 11, 2021 | Nieman Lab — The news gap on the center-right won’t be filled
- News • Dec 9, 2021 | podbean.com — What is Media Literacy, Why is it Essential, and How Do We Teach it?
- News • Dec 8, 2021 | Morning Brew — Here's the business model behind the media bias chart that's gone viral
- News • Nov 13, 2021 | The Economist — According to Twitter, Twitter’s algorithm favours conservatives
- News • Nov 12, 2021 | campaignlive.com — Ad Fontes Media raises $800,000 in pre-seed funding round
- News • Nov 11, 2021 | The Cornell Policy Review — What Social Media Platforms Should Do About Misinformation and Polarization
- News • Nov 6, 2021 | prsa.org — How Communicators Can Help Their Clients Navigate Misinformation and Biased News
- News • Nov 4, 2021 | NPR Illinois — Misinformation is wasting your time | Mission Control Blog
- News • Nov 4, 2021 | PR Week — Polarization has remained constant during the past year
- News • Oct 24, 2021 | Adweek Online — Is Twitter’s Algorithm Actually Biased in Favor of Right-Leaning Content?
- News • Oct 22, 2021 | USC Center for Public Relations Presents #PRFuture — Combating Media Bias with Vanessa Otero of Ad Fontes Media
- News • Oct 5, 2021 | EIN News — New Online Platform to Counteract Dangerous Covid Misinformation
- News • Sep 27, 2021 | Huron Plainsman — Where are the lines?
- News • Sep 8, 2021 | The Quinnipiac Chronicle — By not showing full story, social media pages are Full Send-ing misinformation
- News • Sep 8, 2021 | PR Newswire — Sightly Teams with Ad Fontes Media to Increase Brands' Comfort Factor, Protect Them from Media "Blind Spots"
- News • Sep 2, 2021 | Mother Jones — Most of the “News Bias” Analysis You See Is Based on…Bias
- News • Aug 31, 2021 | Emporia Gazette — Recognizing misinformation
- News • Aug 11, 2021 | Columbia Missourian — Fairness in reporting requires listening to opposing views
- News • Aug 5, 2021 | School Library Journal — Media Bias Chart | Reference Database Review
- News • Jul 28, 2021 | MarTech Series — Ad Fontes Media Expands Board of Advisors and Team to Accelerate its Mission to Make News Consumers Smarter and News Media Better
- News • Jul 27, 2021 | Media Post — Ad Fontes TV Reliability, Bias Ratings Launches, Former CBS TV Prez Appointed To Board
- News • Jul 23, 2021 | Branson Tri-Lakes News — You keep using that word: I do not think it means what you think it means
- News • Jul 20, 2021 | Newsbusters — Reality Check: The ‘Leftist Agenda’ of the Deseret News
- News • Jul 19, 2021 | Deseret News — Opinion: No, the Deseret News doesn’t have a ‘leftist agenda’
- News • Jun 29, 2021 | frac.tl — The Truth About Online Media Bias and Accuracy
- News • Jun 21, 2021 | USA TODAY — How the outrage industrial complex profits from stoking Americans' anger at each other