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A majority of the public believes the media can’t be trusted.

Which global news sites are most transparent about their operations? Not necessarily the ones you would think….

Openness & Accountability: A Study of Transparency in Global Media Outlets

Main Results

Study Conclusions

Understanding Results

Why Transparency?

Study Methodology

Authors

The study used five categories to evaluate the news outlets:

Corrections: Willingness to openly correct mistakes.

Ownership: Openness about corporate ownership.

Staff Policies: Openness about conflicts of interest.

Reporting Policies: Openness about editorial guidelines.

Interactivity: Openness to reader comments and criticism.

	Excellent
	Very Good
	Average
	Poor
	Not Acceptable

	Overall Score	Corrections	Ownership	Staff Policies	Reporting Policies	Interactivity
10. Newsweek	1.6

Ranking: Poor.
Details of Findings:
	The corrections page has links to original stories with corrections. The corrections page also gives you a link to contact the editor. The corrections page offers archived corrections.
	The owner information can be found, but it is difficult to find. It takes more than two clicks or is linked to or from an obscure address. Site’s pages may be copyrighted to an owner, but no information about the owner is linked.
	There is no information provided through the web site or outside web sites. There is a vague statement about style of reporting. There is a relationship shown to the parent company, but no direct references to codes/policies for the specific news outlet.
	There were no News Values anywhere on the web site or on the Google search. Even prolonged searches on search engines like Google returned no relevant results and instead, returned stories with the phrase “News Values” in them instead of actual News Values.
	A link is provided to send letters to the editor.
(Christopher Williams)

About Newsweek

Circulation/Audience

more than four million

Online Access

No log-in needed.

Parent Company

The Washington Post Company

Other Relevant Ownership and Interests

N/A

Parent Company Revenue

$44 Billion

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