Understanding Bias

Understand news media bias by learning about five types of bias and five ways it can manifest itself, as well as methods for minimizing it.

Learning objectives
– I can explain how bias in news coverage is a complex issue.
– I can discuss the role people’s own biases play in perceptions of bias in media.
– I can recognize five types of bias (partisan, demographic, corporate, “big story,” and neutrality) and five forms (framing, absence of fairness and balance, tone, story selection, and sourcing) these biases can take in news coverage.

Essential questions
– Is it possible for a piece of information to be completely unbiased or objective?
– Are there degrees of bias?
– Most people know about political or “partisan” bias. What are some other kinds of biases people have?
– How do biases show themselves in news coverage?

https://www.notion.so/newslitproject/Understanding-Bias-92ef194a653047e190ece832ada9a3e9