We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the content’s overall bias score. To determine sample content’s bias score, we consider its language, its political position, and how it compares to other reporting or analysis from other sources on the same topic. We add each of these scores to the chart on a weighted scale, with the average of those creating the sample content’s overall reliability score. To determine its reliability score, we consider the content’s veracity, expression, its title/headline, and graphics. The team considers a variety of factors when rating content. Each panel of analysts comprises one left-leaning, one right-leaning, and one center-leaning analyst. Panels of analysts from Ad Fontes Media regularly review representative sample content to rate it for reliability and bias. The following are the overall bias and reliability scores for New York Daily News according to our Ad Fontes Media ratings methodology. Founded in 1919, the Daily News is part of the Tribune Publishing Company (sold in 2017 for $1) and has been headquartered in New York however, its newsroom closed in 2020.

New York Daily News is the first tabloid newspaper ever published in the U.S. Ad Fontes Media rates New York Daily News in the Skews Left category of bias and as Reliable, Analysis/Fact Reporting in terms of reliability.

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