Is Express.co.uk a reliable source?
This is how independent third parties assess the credibility and media bias of this source.
OVERALL RATING:23 +, 75 -
Express.co.uk scores a total of 23 Plus Points and 75 Minus Points in our evaluation of journalistic quality.
This corresponds to a score of 26* resp. the grade D− (poor).
The source is blocked on NewsWall due to its bad rating (except sports news).
*: (23 + 5 BP) * 100 / (23 + 5 BP + 75 + 5 BP)
This corresponds to a score of 26* resp. the grade D− (poor).
The source is blocked on NewsWall due to its bad rating (except sports news).
| Grade | Score | |
|---|---|---|
| very good | A+ | > 89 |
| A | 89 - 84 | |
| A− | 83 - 79 | |
| good | B+ | 78 - 74 |
| B | 73 - 67 | |
| B− | 66 - 62 | |
| satisfactory | C+ | 61 - 56 |
| C | 55 - 49 | |
| C− | 48 - 44 | |
| sufficient | D+ | 43 - 39 |
| D | 38 - 32 | |
| poor | D− | 31 - 26 |
| insufficient | F | < 26 |
Grade composition
The overall rating is made up of the following individual ratings from independent third parties:
Press Council Rulings36 -
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.
- "EXPRESS Online (0014/18/1) Ziffer 2"
German Press Council
- "00041-20 Smith v express.co.uk"
- "00191-16 Portes v express.co.uk"
- "00389-17 Mower v express.co.uk"
- "00583-20 Giblin-Jowett v express.co.uk"
- "00666-24 Mitchison v express.co.uk"
- "00952-19 Richardson v express.co.uk"
- "01979-21 Parish v express.co.uk"
- "Decision of the Complaints Committee Agrawal v express.co.uk 02240-18"
- "02580-18 Kirkpatrick v express.co.uk"
- "02820-18 Sivier v express.co.uk"
- "03106-21 Centre for Media Monitoring v express.co.uk"
- "04097-19 Various v express.co.uk"
- "06021-24 Williams-Key v express.co.uk"
- "06492-19 Kruft v express.co.uk"
- "06496-24 Williams-Key v express.co.uk"
- "06509-24 Williams-Key v express.co.uk"
- "06518-24 Williams-Key v express.co.uk"
- "06605-24 Williams-Key v express.co.uk"
- "06633-24 Williams-Key v express.co.uk"
- "06720-18 Johnson v express.co.uk"
- "06939-18 Thorne v express.co.uk"
- "07156-19 Walters v express.co.uk"
- "07537-16 Race v express.co.uk"
- "07925-18 Partlett v express.co.uk"
- "07938-21 Various v express.co.uk"
- "11344-20 A man v express.co.uk"
- "11525-22 Mitchison v express.co.uk"
- "12405-21 Horner v express.co.uk"
- "12549-21 Mitchison v express.co.uk"
- "16327-17 Whittle v express.co.uk"
- "16959-23 A man v express.co.uk"
- "17508-17 Evans v express.co.uk"
- "20385-17 Hill v express.co.uk"
- "22422-23 openDemocracy v express.co.uk"
- "29211-20 Hanney v express.co.uk"
IPSO (UK)
Media Bias/Fact Check7 +, 13 -
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.
- "Right"
Bias Rating
- "Mixed"
Factual Reporting
Ad Fontes Media13 +, 7 -
Ad Fontes Media, Inc. is a media watchdog organization based in Colorado that is best known for its Media Bias Chart, which ranks media sources based on political bias and reliability. We combine their ratings of individual articles and episodes to create a weighted average, with low-rated items increasingly weighted higher.
- "Mixed"
Reliability (Weighted Average)
- "Low Bias"
Bias (Weighted Average)
Fact Checkers19 -
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.
- "Fact-check: Russian convoy north of St Petersburg was not carrying Iskander missiles"
- "Express vastly overstates impact of UK trade deals – Full Fact"
- "Claim about cost of Labour’s welfare policy is unsubstantiated – Full Fact"
- "Labour’s Land Value Tax: will you have to sell your garden? – Full Fact"
- "It is not Labour policy to scrap the single occupant council tax discount – Full Fact"
- "Factcheck: Daily Express EU "poll" is biased and wide of the mark"
- "It's not true that data on causes of death isn't published – Full Fact"
- "This claim about children with diabetes is completely wrong – Full Fact"
- "The German government hasn’t billed China for “coronavirus damages”"
- "There's no evidence that the 2019 coronavirus originated in a Chinese government laboratory – Full Fact"
- "Express front page headline on diabetes is based on flawed research – Full Fact"
- "Most Britons are not projected to be obese by 2040 – Full Fact"
- "Express publishes misleading article about safety of the Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine"
- "A study has not claimed the new coronavirus was ‘genetically engineered for efficient spread in humans’"
- Link
- "Fake Boris Johnson quote spreads on Facebook – Full Fact"
- "Claims that a quarter of all Covid-19 deaths weren’t caused by the virus misinterpret the data – Full Fact"
- "Volunteer who died in a COVID-19 vaccine trial in Brazil did not receive the vaccine - Science Feedback"
- "Daily Express: what a difference a new owner has made (especially if you are a migrant)"
Journalism Awards3 +
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.
- "Campaign of the Year: Chris Riches (Daily Express): The campaign championed cystic-fibrosis patients, secured access to life-saving drugs and improved the lives of many young people."
- "Energy and Environment Journalism – sponsored by OVO Energy: John Ingham (Daily Express): The campaign helped make the Daily Express a leading environmental voice and secured positive change."
- "Public Service Journalism, in association with The Journalists’ Charity: Hanna Geissler, Dan Dove (Daily Express): Their long-running campaign centred vulnerable people’s voices and helped secure a major change in the law."
British Journalism Awards
Wikipedia
Wikipedia’s reliability was frequently criticized in the 2000s. However, various studies and media reports have noted improvements over time, and in the late 2010s and early 2020s, it was more often praised.
In the scoring model, any positive mention of a source’s credibility or quality in a Wikipedia extract receives a plus point—while negative mentions are treated as minus points.
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Studies
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.
- We have not identified any evaluations by academic studies to date.
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