Is Financial Times a reliable source?
This is how independent third parties assess the credibility and media bias of this source.
OVERALL RATING:44 +, 6 -
Financial Times scores a total of 44 Plus Points and 6 Minus Points in our evaluation of journalistic quality.
This corresponds to a score of 82* resp. the grade A- (very good).
*: (44 + 5 BP) * 100 / (44 + 5 BP + 6 + 5 BP)
This corresponds to a score of 82* resp. the grade A- (very good).
| 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:
Ad Fontes Media17 +, 3 -
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.
- "High"
Reliability (Weighted Average)
- "Low Bias"
Bias (Weighted Average)
Journalism Awards17 +
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.
- "The Marie Colvin Prize: Erika Solomon (Financial Times): For humane, brave Middle East reporting, showing subtle observation and empathy in conflict zones."
- "New Journalist of the Year: Paul McClean (Financial Times): For outstanding, in-depth financial reporting on Brexit treaties by a highly promising young journalist."
- "News Provider of the Year: Financial Times: Consistently high-quality journalism, securing exclusives and innovating while investing in quality reporting."
- "Political Journalism: Jim Pickard, Janine Gibson, Robert Shrimsley, Jonathan Ford, Chris Giles, Delphine Strauss, Sebastian Payne (Financial Times): A detailed, revealing analysis of the economic consequences of Jeremy Corbyn as PM, contributing to political discourse."
- "Technology journalism: Mehul Srivastava (Financial Times): A global-impact investigation into Israeli spyware that prompted tech companies to improve network security."
- "Business, Finance and Economics Journalism: Gill Plimmer, Robert Smith (Financial Times): Brought the Thames Water debt crisis to national attention through expert coverage of infrastructure and financial markets."
- "Journalist of the Year, sponsored by Camelot: Dan McCrum (Financial Times): For his dogged and courageous investigation into Wirecard, facing intimidation to expose major financial wrongdoing."
- "News Provider of the Year: Financial Times: For exemplary coverage of coronavirus and the Wirecard scandal, providing data-driven, influential journalism."
- "Investigation of the Year: Financial Times: For an extraordinary team investigation exposing corruption at the highest levels of politics and business."
- "Politics Journalism: Jim Pickard, Cynthia O’Murchu, Robert Smith, Arash Massoudi (Financial Times): For a collaborative investigation exposing David Cameron’s links to Greensill, showing the depth of political corruption."
- "Marie Colvin Award: Antonia Cundy (Financial Times): Freelance journalist recognized for determination, grit, and humanity in original reporting from Ukraine."
- "Specialist Journalism: John Burn-Murdoch (Financial Times): Expert data journalism providing fresh insights and powerful narratives on health and society."
- "Arts and Entertainment Journalism: Neil Munshi (Financial Times): Unique story with significant foreign policy implications not found elsewhere."
- "New Journalist of the Year: Antonia Cundy (Financial Times): Praised for fearless reporting that exposed hidden truths and challenged the powerful."
- "News Provider of the Year 2018: Financial Times: For excelling across all journalism areas, setting the news agenda, and raising standards with impactful investigations."
- "Politics Journalism: Laura Hughes (Financial Times): For a detailed investigation into sexual harassment at Westminster, sparking an official report and using extensive confidential sources."
- "Arts and Entertainment: Matthew Garrahan (Financial Times): For breaking new ground on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, revealing legal firms' roles in the cover-up, and building trust with victims."
British Journalism Awards
Studies7 +, 3 -
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.
- "Financial Times 7/10 Points (Average from Accuracy: 8/10 Points + 7 more quality-related ratings)"
European Media Systems Survey 2013
Wikipedia3 +
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.
- "The Financial Times is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and also published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs."
"and it is considered a newspaper of record."
English-speaking
- "Die Financial Times ist eine britische Tageszeitung,"
German-speaking
Media Bias/Fact Check
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.
- MBFC-rating was not found.
Fact Checkers
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.
- We have not identified any failed fact checks to date.
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.
- We are not aware of any press council rulings against this source to date.
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