For teachers, professors, and researchers
Free crowd-sourced media bias data for media-literacy units, journalism courses, and research projects. Distribution histograms, trust-weighting math, and a public API — designed to be examined, not just consumed.
Have students rate the same article on Web Jury and compare to AllSides + MBFC. The disagreement between tools is the learning opportunity — none of them are infallible, all are useful in combination.
Assign a different outlet to each student, have them write a Web Jury review with evidence URLs, and discuss the resulting class-aggregated score. Concrete practice with bias evaluation.
Use the free API to pull bias + accuracy time-series for hundreds of outlets. Suitable for senior theses, grad seminars, and computational journalism courses. CSV export available.
Pick 3 well-known outlets. Compare their bias rating on AllSides, Media Bias / Fact Check, and Web Jury. Discuss why the methodologies produce different answers and which you trust for what use case.
Show students CNN's Web Jury page. Point out the histogram. Ask: what does it mean that 24% rate it Far Left and 18% rate it Center? Bimodality as a data feature, not a bug.
Discuss the three layers of defense (trust-weighting, distribution visibility, temporal smoothing). Have students design their own crowd-sourced rating system as a group exercise — what defenses would they add?
Use Web Jury journalist pages. Compare a single reporter's credibility rating to their parent outlet's. When and why do they diverge? Implications for byline-aware media literacy.
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Web Jury data is built for examination. The full methodology is documented, including the trust-weighting formula and brigading defenses. The vote distribution per outlet is public. The API returns the raw scores, not just the labels.
DOI assignment for citing Web Jury data is planned for Q3 2026. Until then, cite as: “Web Jury, crowd-sourced media bias platform, web-jury.com, accessed [date].”
Can students under 18 use Web Jury?
Reviewing requires age 13+. Reading is open to all ages. For middle-school lessons, focus on reading + comparison exercises rather than account creation.
Do you have a "classroom mode" or LMS integration?
Not yet. We're building toward Canvas + Google Classroom integration; until then, the API and CSV export are the integration path. Educator account holders get first preview when shipped.
Can I include Web Jury screenshots in published research?
Yes. Attribution requested but not required for academic use. For commercial use see /press.
We respond to educator inquiries within 24 hours. Lesson plans, research support, custom data pulls — happy to help.