Saturday, April 23rd, 2022
Special Edition: Examining Bias in News Coverage
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Here at The Newsworthy, we work hard to deliver news roundups with as little bias as possible. We look at a variety of news sources, even for just one story. We do our best to cite credible sources that are perceived as both right and left-leaning in the hopes of bringing you multiple perspectives in every episode and earning your trust.
But what sources are left and right-leaning? And are there any that fall right in the center? Well, AllSides doesn’t just guess or give their opinion about it – they’ve done scientific analysis. That’s what we’re talking about today with our guest, Julie Mastrine.
She developed the AllSides Media Bias Chart and is their director of marketing and media bias ratings. She’s made it her mission to educate news consumers about bias and is sharing ‘behind the scenes’ of her media ratings in our conversation right now.
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Guest: Julie Mastrine
Julie Mastrine is the Director of Marketing and Media Bias Ratings at AllSides, which provides balanced news, media bias ratings, and civil discourse. She developed the AllSides Media Bias Chart™ and wrote the AllSides resource guide to Types of Media Bias and How to Spot Them.
Julie spent many years as a spokeswoman and PR representative helping political organizations to craft their campaign messaging in the press. Working with political operatives and reporters equipped her to better understand, analyze, and teach about media bias.
Julie has written extensively on media bias, and has conducted AllSides media bias audits of major news organizations for the last four years. Julie is also a longtime writer whose work has appeared in USA Today, The Epoch Times, and Evie Magazine.
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