Which News Can You Trust Online?

Poynter Institute by Amy Gahran | Jul. 17, 2007 (Opinion)

Credibility is a key concern in online media, especially to average net users trying to figure out which information they can trust. Yesterday the Sunlight Foundation announced a $10,000 grant to NewsTrust -- an intriguing online news rating service intended to help people identify quality journalism.
According to Sunlight's announcement, NewsTrust's site and feed "feature the best and the worst news of the day, picked from hundreds of alternative and ... Full Story »

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by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

This story doesn't really say very much, so it's difficult to consider it good journalism, even though it provides publicity for NewsTrust. It also seems to me that NewsTrust has its share of people who use the review process to give their opinions of what the source(s) of the story should have said or whether it conforms to their policitical beliefs, often using very loaded terminology, rather than commenting on the quality of the story itself.