Berkeleyside

Berkeleyside is a pioneering nonprofit digital news platform in Berkeley, California that reports on Berkeley and the East Bay. It was founded in October 2009 by journalists Frances Dinkelspiel, Tracey Taylor and Lance Knobel. In collaboration with new partners and leaders, they launched the Cityside Journalism Initiative to bring more great local journalism to the Bay Area.

74%

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 news site 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 its reporting.

Bias

85%

Examples:

  • The article seems to lean towards the students' perspective, providing more space for their voices and demands than the university's response.

Conflicts of Interest

85%

Examples:

  • “Based on his actions, Theo Lengyel is a person of interest in Alice Herrmann’s disappearance and has not cooperated with the police investigation,” El Cerrita police said at the time.

Contradictions

100%

Examples:

No current examples available.

Deceptions

50%

Examples:

  • “The sentence 'Police from Santa Cruz County have arrested an El Cerrito man on suspicion of murder after recovering a body in Tilden Regional Park in or near Berkeley' is also deceptive because it does not specify that Lengyel was arrested for killing Herrmann.
  • “The title mentions a missing woman and her boyfriend being arrested, but does not mention the cause of death. This could be seen as misleading to readers who do not read the entire article.

Recent Articles

  • Missing Person Found Dead In Berkeley; Boyfriend Arrested For Murder

    Missing Person Found Dead In Berkeley; Boyfriend Arrested For Murder

    Broke On: Friday, 05 January 2024
      Missing person found dead in Berkeley Boyfriend arrested for murder of missing woman Body discovered near University Avenue and Telegraph Avenue in Berkeley, California.

    • University Students Across U.S. Stage Walkouts in Solidarity with Palestine

      Broke On: Wednesday, 25 October 2023 Students at UC Berkeley, Penn, Temple, Drexel, and Clark University staged walkouts from their classes on October 25, 2023, to express solidarity with Palestine. The students demanded that their universities divest from companies contributing to the oppression of the Palestinian people and take a public stance in support of Palestine.