Is BBC News a reliable source?
This is how independent third parties assess the credibility and media bias of this source.
OVERALL RATING:61 +, 6 -
BBC News scores a total of 61 Plus Points and 6 Minus Points in our evaluation of journalistic quality.
This corresponds to a score of 86* resp. the grade A (very good).
*: (61 + 5 BP) * 100 / (61 + 5 BP + 6 + 5 BP)
The breakdown of the points follows below.
This corresponds to a score of 86* resp. the grade A (very good).
Grade | Score | |
---|---|---|
very good | A+ | > 89 |
A | 89 - 84 | |
A- | 83 - 79 | |
good | B+ | 78 - 74 |
B | 73 - 69 | |
B- | 68 - 63 | |
satisfactory | C+ | 62 - 58 |
C | 57 - 53 | |
C- | 52 - 47 | |
sufficient | D+ | 46 - 44 |
D | 43 - 40 | |
D- | 39 - 37 | |
poor | E+ | 36 - 33 |
E | 32 - 30 | |
E- | 29 - 26 | |
insufficient | F | < 26 |
The breakdown of the points follows below.
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Ad Fontes Media17 +, 3 -
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- "Very high"
Reliability (Weighted Average)
- "Low Bias"
Bias (Weighted Average)
Media Bias/Fact Check18 +, 2 -
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"
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- "High"
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Journalism Awards16 +
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.
- "Awarded in recognition of the website's "immediate, evolving coverage of news events great and small""
- "Independent Lens, for The House I Live In"
- "Award for its coverage on Rohingya refugees fleeing to Bangladesh to avoid persecution in the Myanma state of Rakhine"
- "Awarded to Civilisations Augmented Reality App for Mobile"
- "Have You Heard George's Podcast?"
Peabody Award
- "BBC America, for "BBC World News America: Haiti's Earthquake" (Matt Frei, Matthew Price, correspondents)"
duPont–Columbia Award
- "Science and Technology Journalist of the Year (sponsored by Astellas) – Pallab Ghosh, BBC"
- "Duncan Leatherdale, Whirlpool (BBC News)"
- "Stephen Nolan and and David Thomson, BBC Radio Ulster"
- "Deborah Cohen – BBC Newsnight"
- "Steve Swann, Thomas Mackintosh, Tom Symonds, Danny Shaw, Wesley Stephenson, Jodi Law and David Brown – BBC News"
- "Emily Maitlis – BBC"
- "Jonathan Gibson – Inside Out West Midlands, BBC Birmingham"
- "Rianna Croxford – BBC News"
- "New journalist of the Year: Emma Slater, BBC Panorama/Bureau of Investigative Journalism"
- "Science Journalist of the Year – Tom Feilden, BBC Today"
British Journalism Awards
Studies10 +
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.
Fact Checkers1 -
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.
Wikipedia
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.
- "BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs."
- "BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs."
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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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