👤 Michelle R Smith

2 articles tracked

About this journalist

Articles
2
2026-09-15 – 2026-10-27
Claims per article
20
40 extracted in total
Hedged claims
5%
corpus average 9%
Typical length
3,414
characters
Writes for The Guardian.
Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty (“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is not a fault: it is often careful sourcing. How these are measured.

What they cover

Health
50%
Politics
50%
Most-tagged topics
ASTHOAssociation of State and Territorial Health OfficialsCDCDrop RXEmpower MDFox NewsGuardianMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Leaning

Not enough articles to place this byline.
2 scored articles; a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned. Their outlet averages -0.34 (leans left).

More from this journalist

Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-27 · The Guardian · Health
Trump-appointed CDC deputy director to resign after six months on the job
5 outlets covered this event · leans strongly left
2026-09-15 · The Guardian · Politics
US surgeon general nominee made $270,000 from supplement company
no other outlet in the corpus covered this · leans left

What they said would happen

2026-09-15 · The Guardian
US surgeon general nominee made $270,000 from supplement company
🔮 She said she would sell the company before assuming the duties of surgeon general. assertive
2026-10-27 · The Guardian
Trump-appointed CDC deputy director to resign after six months on the job
🔮 The deputy director and chief medical officer of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will resign after six months on the job, according to an agency email obtained by the Guardian. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first. Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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