Ailsa Chang

Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts NPR's All Things Considered. She has a background in law and has worked as a Planet Money correspondent, covering topics such as privacy rights and the underground asylum industry. As a congressional correspondent with NPR's Washington Desk, she covered healthcare, immigration, gun control, and more. Chang started her radio reporting career in 2009 and has since earned numerous awards for her work.

Biography:  https://www.npr.org/people/186026737/ailsa-chang

98%

The overall score is a weighted number that takes into account conflict of interest, bias, deception and other practices that undermines the credibility of the source. It is calculated as:
Analysis.OverallConflictOfInterestScore * 0.3F + Analysis.OverallBiasScore * 0.3F + Analysis.DeceptivenessScore * 0.3F + Analysis.ReadabilityScore * 0.1F

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The Daily's Verdict

This author is known for its high journalistic standards. The author strives to maintain neutrality and transparency in its reporting, and avoids conflicts of interest. The author has a reputation for accuracy and rarely gets contradicted on major discrepancies in its reporting.

Bias

95%

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  • Ailsa Chang is an award-winning journalist who hosts All Things Considered along with Ari Shapiro, Mary Louise Kelly and Juana Summers.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

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No current examples available.

Contradictions

75%

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  • A new Covid variant, KP.2, is overtaking the dominant Covid variant in the US
  • California and other parts of the country are at risk for a summer surge in Covid cases

Deceptions

100%

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No current examples available.

Recent Articles

New Covid Variant KP.2 Emerges in California: Potential Summer Surge Amidst Increasing Wastewater Levels and Travel

New Covid Variant KP.2 Emerges in California: Potential Summer Surge Amidst Increasing Wastewater Levels and Travel

Broke On: Thursday, 30 May 2024 A new Covid variant, KP.2, is emerging and overtaking the dominant strain in California and other parts of the US. This raises concerns for a potential summer surge in cases due to travel and air-conditioned gatherings. The variant belongs to the FLiRT group of Omicron tree variants, with mutations that could enhance ACE2 binding or decrease antibody efficiency, and improve viral entry into host cells.