Evaluating Sources

This subject guide on journalism provides additional content on finding reliable information, fact-checking, etc.

A much more in-depth guide to analyzing news sources in particular to determine if they're fake or otherwise misleading.

This document provides both tips for analyzing news sources and a list of news sources with tags assigned to indicate what kind of news they are. The list is no longer being updated because so many of the sources kept changing, but it helps to illustrate just how much misleading information is out there on the Internet.

"The Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University is committed to teaching students how to use critical thinking skills to judge the reliability and credibility of news reports and news sources. It is the only center of its kind in the United States."

"Facing History’s resources address racism, antisemitism, and prejudice at pivotal moments in history; we help students connect choices made in the past to those they will confront in their own lives."

A simple guide to evaluating sources by Michelle Nijhuis, a science journalist who has written for many publications including National Geographic and the Smithsonian magazine.