Patricia Murphy

Patricia Murphy is the host of Seattle Now, a daily news podcast where she interviews experts and newsmakers. Her previous experience includes reporting on military, veteran, justice and health topics. Patricia has received multiple Edward R. Murrow awards for her work in journalism, focusing on issues such as gun violence among young people and injection drug use. Despite her achievements, she still considers her first job as a news reporter as throwing hard copies of the Sunday paper from her bike. She is a graduate of Emerson College with a B.S. in Communications and is based in Seattle.

Biography:  https://www.kuow.org/authors/patricia-murphy

84%

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

A score that takes into consideration the content for flow, interruptions with ads, and overt search engine optimization techniques that makes the content hard to understand

The Daily's Verdict

This author has a mixed reputation for journalistic standards. It is advisable to fact-check, scrutinize for bias, and check for conflicts of interest before relying on the author's reporting.

Bias

75%

Examples:

  • Patricia Murphy has a background in reporting on military, veteran, justice and health topics. This may lead to a potential for bias when covering stories related to these subjects.

Conflicts of Interest

100%

Examples:

  • Patricia Murphy received a regional Edward R. Murrow award for a series about the motivations of young people who carry guns, and in 2005, she received a national Edward R. Murrow award for her reporting on injection drug use.

Contradictions

80%

Examples:

  • Covid cases are on the rise in early June 2024 despite vaccinations and previous surges.
  • COVID test positivity in the US was 5.4% for the week ending June 8, an increase of 0.8% from the previous week.
  • Infection rates and emergency department visits in King County have been rising since the end of April.

Deceptions

75%

Examples:

  • As Covid continues to settle into everyday life, health experts are noticing it has certain patterns and a few other changes from the first few years the virus struck.
  • If you remember from the last couple of years, there is a large winter surge and then there is often a smaller but still significant surge in mid- to late-summer. So, we're heading into that now.
  • Summer Covid is a thing.
  • We are heading into a summer surge.

Recent Articles

CDC Warns of Summer COVID-19 Surge: Test Positivity Rises in 34 States, New Variants Spreading

CDC Warns of Summer COVID-19 Surge: Test Positivity Rises in 34 States, New Variants Spreading

Broke On: Wednesday, 19 June 2024 As the summer travel season kicks off, COVID-19 cases are on the rise in the US with a 0.8% increase in test positivity from the previous week. The Western region, particularly along the West Coast, is experiencing significant increases in COVID-19 wastewater levels and test positivity rates. Experts advise senior citizens and those with respiratory diseases to wear masks on airplanes due to the spread of contagious sub-variants. Vaccination rates have declined in some areas, contributing to a summer surge driven by the dominant KP.3 variant, which makes up 25% of cases in the US.