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OVERALL RATING:53 +, 37 -
theguardian.com scores a total of 53 Plus Points and 37 Minus Points in our evaluation of journalistic quality.
This corresponds to a score of 58* resp. the grade C+ (satisfactory).
*: (53 + 5 BP) * 100 / (53 + 5 BP + 37 + 5 BP)
This corresponds to a score of 58* resp. the grade C+ (satisfactory).
Grade | Score | |
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very good | A+ | > 89 |
A | 89 - 84 | |
A- | 83 - 79 | |
good | B+ | 78 - 74 |
B | 73 - 67 | |
B- | 66 - 62 | |
satisfactory | C+ | 61 - 56 |
C | 55 - 49 | |
C- | 48 - 44 | |
sufficient | D+ | 43 - 39 |
D | 38 - 32 | |
poor | D- | 31 - 26 |
insufficient | F | < 26 |
Grade composition
The overall rating is made up of the following individual ratings from independent third parties:
Ad Fontes Media11 +, 9 -
Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a media watchdog organization based in Colorado that is best known for its Media Bias Chart, which ranks media sources based on political bias and reliability. We combine their ratings of individual articles and episodes to create a weighted average, with low-rated items increasingly weighted higher.
- "Medium"
Reliability (Weighted Average)
- "Center-Left"
Bias (Weighted Average)
Media Bias/Fact Check10 +, 10 -
Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC) is an American fact-checking website founded in 2015. It uses a 0-10 scale to rate sites on two areas: bias and factual accuracy. A source rated by MBFC with minimal bias gets 10 plus points. Maximum bias gets 10 minus points. The same principle applies to factual accuracy.
- "Center-Left"
Bias Rating
- "Mixed"
Factual Reporting
Journalism Awards19 +
Journalism prizes are awards for excellent journalistic work in the period covered by the call for entries, which is usually one or two years. Sources receive one plus point for each journalistic award won that we track. We currently track up to three prestigious awards per country.
- "David Conn – of The Guardian"
- "Patrick Kingsley from The Guardian"
- "The Guardian for GuardianWitness"
- "Innovation of the Year – The Guardian"
- "The Guardian, Simon Goodley, for: Revealed: how Sports Direct effectively pays below minimum wage, A day at ‘the gulag’: what it’s like to work at Sports Direct’s warehouse and Sports Direct warehouse workers to receive back pay"
- "Daniel Taylor of The Guardian for his reports on child abuse in football, including: “‘When I started talking to players about the abuse they suffered, I couldn’t believe how deep it ran into football’.”"
- "The Guardian’s Aditya Chakrabortty, whose articles include: “Your new iPhone’s features include oppression, inequality – and vast profit.”"
- "Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian"
- "Marina Hyde – Guardian News & Media"
- "Rob Davies – Guardian News & Media"
- "Simon Hattenstone and Daniel Lavelle – Guardian News & Media"
- "Marina Hyde – The Guardian"
- "Sophie Elmhirst – The Guardian"
- "Stephanie Kirchgaessner – The Guardian"
- "Innovation of the Year – The Guardian for ‘Reading the Riots’"
- "Juliette Garside, James Ball, David Leigh and David Pegg of The Guardian for the HSBC Files"
- "Patrick Kingsley of The Guardian for:"
- "The Guardian for Keep it in the Ground"
British Journalism Awards
Fact Checkers13 -
We primarily use fact-checkers affiliated with the International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). We have linked to the International Fact-Checking Network fact-checkers' code of principles in the headline. For each failed fact-checker there is one minus point.
- "FACT CHECK: Did A Florida School Ban Amanda Gorman's Poem?"
- "Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion"
- "Child self-harm numbers in the Guardian, Mirror and Independent don’t reflect survey’s actual findings - Full Fact"
- "Poverty hasn’t skyrocketed in the UK - Full Fact"
- "Data from Barnardo’s doesn’t show the number of children needing foster care has grown 44% - Full Fact"
- "Do companies bidding for government contracts have to back Brexit? - Full Fact"
- "Layla Moran’s child malnutrition figures are wrong - Full Fact"
- "There are some mistakes in these figures about lung cancer diagnoses - Full Fact"
- "Quarter of private renters experience sickness over housing worries—but we don’t know if private renting is the cause - Full Fact"
- "Are there 3.5 million vegans in the UK? - Full Fact"
- "Justice spending is down 25% since 2010, not 40% - Full Fact"
- "Government proposes new zero hour contract legislation - Full Fact"
- "The Most Popular Health Articles of 2018, a Scientific Credibility Review"
Studies7 +, 3 -
Most scientific publications, though not all, rely on some form of peer review or editorial review to qualify texts for publication. Sources mentioned in studies which rate media quality and/or reliability receive between 10 plus and 10 minus points.
- "The Guardian 6.65/10 Points (Average from Accuracy: 7.14/10 Points + 7 more quality-related ratings)"
European Media Systems Survey 2013
Wikipedia6 +, 2 -
Wikipedia's reliability was often criticized in the 2000s but has improved over time; in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it was universally praised. Any positive mention of a source in the extract of a Wikipedia page in terms of credibility and quality gets a plus point, and vice versa.
- "The Guardian [ðə ˈgɑːdɪən] ist eine britische Tageszeitung."
German-speaking
Press Council Rulings
Press councils are national institutions of media self-regulation. Press councils have their own defined press code. Reprimands are issued in the event of a violation of the press code (e.g. for truthfulness, diligence, sensationalism, separation of advertising and editorial, personal rights). For each reprimand issued by a national press council, a source receives one minus point.
- There have been no press council rulings against the source to date.
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