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.
1 scored article;
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 -0.24
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
2026-10-01 · The Sydney Morning Herald
· Crime & Law
🔮 Jack Gibson-Burrell was beamed into Melbourne Magistrates’ Court from custody for seven minutes on Tuesday, but for nearly all of it, the public could only see the back of his shaved head. mixed
🔮 The shock decision is set to be referred to the royal commission into the building industry amid questions about why the state Labor government has failed to act on repeated police requests first issued in 2014 – and most recently again this year – to toughen laws to force gangland figures out of the construction sector. mixed
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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