BLINDSPOT REPORT

The weekly Blindspot Report from Ground News aims to break down political news bubbles by exposing how media bias shapes understanding of news

Each week, the Ground News Blindspot Report looks at the platform’s data to identify the news events from the past week that received the most lopsided coverage in today’s polarized media landscape. 

See the latest Blindspot Report here.

Learn more about Ground News’ use of Bias ratings.

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Unlike traditional news aggregators, which utilize crowd-sourcing and algorithms that tend to reward sensational stories designed to draw clicks, Ground News Pro puts a priority on helping users understand the news based on critical data like media bias, geographic location, and time. Ground News Pro is available for $0.99/month or $9.99/year through the App Store and Google Play Store’s subscription services. A mobile and web-based version of Ground News is available for free. 

Methodology: 

  • Ground News processes over 30,000 news events  throughout the day 

  • Articles from different news outlets covering the same news event are merged into a single news story so subscribers can get all the perspectives in one view

  • Each article is labeled one of seven bias ratings (Far Left, Left, Leans Left, Center, Leans Right, Right, Far Right) based on the average bias rating of the publishing news outlet

  • All news outlet bias ratings are originally sourced from three independent news monitoring agencies (AllSides, Media Bias Fact Check, Ad Fontes Media)

  • The Blindspot Report is generated by evaluating the mean and standard deviation of the aggregate bias ratings of the day's top 100 (most covered and most read) stories

  • News stories with greatest mean score (many more Right outlets than Left or vice versa) or the highest standard deviation of bias ratings (more more coverage on fringes than Center) are selected for the Report