News Literacy: News Consumption

AllSides aims to provide multiple perspectives on news, issues, and topics including rating the bias on various articles on the same topic.

The Watchdog section of Columbia Journalism Review. CJR’s mission is to be the intellectual leader in the rapidly changing world of journalism.

Weekly investigation into how the media shapes our world view

Search for it or visit this one recent example linked here. Series no longer running.

The Wall Street Journal provides side by side comparisons of liberal and conservative Facebook feeds on several topics. Demonstrates echo chamber effect of news through social media. (No longer updated)

A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania. A nonpartisan, nonprofit “consumer advocate” for voters that aims to reduce the level of deception and confusion in U.S. politics.

Real-time audience analytics for any Twitter profile

A tool that lets you visualize the spread of claims for fact checking.

Presented by the Society of Professional Journalists, frequently updated list of resources for journalists to use in fact-checking and verification.

International Center for Media and the Public Agenda, University of Maryland

Founded in 2007, fact-checks journalism to to give citizens the information they need to govern themselves in a democracy. Truth-o-meter. Pulitzer Prize winning

Will tell you if a news site is reliable—right in your browser

24 year old grandparent of hoax busting

Lets you pull a video’s thumbnails and do a reverse image search on them in one click