04/19/2026
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💻📰 Web/Print Chart, Apr 2026
According to research by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University, almost 40% of all local U.S. newspapers have vanished over the past 20 years. As a result, the number of news deserts – areas that lack consistent local reporting – has grown steadily, with Medill estimating that 212 U.S. counties have no local news source and another 1,525 counties have only one news source remaining, typically a weekly newspaper. Taken together, according to Medill’s 2025 The State of Local News report, about 50 million Americans live with limited or no access to local news.
This is alarming to us here at Ad Fontes Media because our analysis has shown that local news websites are more reliable and less biased overall compared to all other news sources we rate (national and international reporting, podcasts, videos and TV). So while people have more and more ways to get news information these days, the most reliable sources of news are disappearing.
We include local news sources on the Media Bias Chart® because they are a valuable resource of information for people in various communities, and these local sources report on news that citizens can’t get anywhere else. It may seem odd to see The Detroit News and a local TV station in Tucson on the chart alongside Associated Press (AP) and The Economist, but to us, all are equally important when it comes to providing valuable information.
The April edition of the Media Bias Chart® for Web/Print that we’re releasing today includes nine websites of local newspapers or TV stations. All but one fall inside the green box. Sources in the green box (top middle) of the chart have been rated by our team to be minimally biased and to provide fact-based information.
This is typical. Overall our analysis team has rated 2,900 websites, and 1,402 (48%) are local. Of those 1,402 local websites, 1,329 of them fall within the green box. That’s 95%! That’s an impressive endorsement of the quality of local reporting, and it’s tragic that so much of it is now being lost.
Here’s a list of all sources from the April Media Bias Chart® for Web/Print that fall within the green box. Local news websites are in bold:
ABC Miami Local 10 WPLG
ADN America
Al Jazeera (website)
AP | Associated Press
Army Times
Bellingcat
C4ISRNET
Christianity Today
CNN (website)
Edinburgh Live
EdSource
Foreign Affairs
FOX 11 LA KTTV
Harper’s Magazine
Jacksonville Journal-Courier
KGUN 9 Tucson
Newsweek
NPR (website)
Pew Research Center
ProPublica
Semafor
Sludge
Straight Arrow News
Texas Observer
The Christian Post
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter
The Detroit News
The Economist
The Guardian
The New York Times
The Parnas Perspective
The Reload
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
The War Horse
TVO Today
USAFacts
Wall Street Journal
War on the Rocks
Washington Post
World News Group
Yellowhammer News
The April edition of the web-print chart features 122 of the 2,900 web/print sources our team has rated so far. We know it’s hard to read all of the source logos on the chart, so we’ve provided a list of the 122 sources here. (Stay tuned for charts that focus on podcasts and TV/video sources later this month).
Ten sources make their debut on this month’s chart. Sources in bold also fall within the green box:
ABC Miami Local 10 WPLG
C4ISRNET
Edinburgh Live
Foreign Affairs
Political Correctness News
The Black Wall Street Times
The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter
The Thomas B. Fordham Institute
War on the Rocks
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