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Media Coverage

January 18, 2019The Daily Signal: NewsGuard ‘Nutrition Label’ Ratings of News Sites Popular

January 16, 2019The New York Times: Veterans of the News Business Are Now Fighting Fakes

January 16, 2019Forbes: NewsGuard Gets A Leg Up In The War On Real Fake News

January 15, 2019Folio: Gaining Traction With Consumers and Platforms, NewsGuard Draws Scrutiny From RT, WikiLeaks

January 9, 2019Wired: Here’s What Happens When News Comes With a Nutrition Label

December 17, 2018Big Island Now: Libraries Join NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

December 12, 2018LocalMediaInsider: NewsGuard’s trust initiative shows early promise

December 6, 2018Politico: Health Warnings For News?

November 19, 2018The Daily Signal: How to Tell If the News Is Reliable (podcast)

November 19, 2018Adweek: This Startup Uses Old-School Journalism to Expose Fake News

November 7, 2018Editor & Publisher: NewsGuard Creates Ratings System to See if Websites Provide Legitimate News or Misinformation

November 2, 2018Tech+Life: Guardians of the (Online) Galaxy

October 31, 2018The Boston Globe: New tool helps stand guard against fake news

October 26, 2018C-SPAN: Steven Brill on Distinguishing Between Journalism and “Fake News”

October 16, 2018The Hill: Finding common ground in rating media

September 18, 2018Yale Daily News: Yale alums combat “fake news” with startup

September 14, 2018ProMarket: Journalism Over Algorithms: How One Company Is Attempting to Combat Fake News

August 27, 2018Bloomberg: How NewsGuard Helps Consumers Fight Fake News (video)

August 23, 2018Axios: NewsGuard launches first product with help from Microsoft

August 23, 2018Wired: NewsGuard Wants to Fight Fake News With Humans, Not Algorithms

August 23, 2018Microsoft: Defending against disinformation in partnership with NewsGuard

August 23, 2018Axios AM: Situational Awareness

April 19, 2018Politico: NewsGuard Expands with Veteran Journalists from New York Times and AP

April 10, 2018Folio: Inside Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz’s War on Fake News

April 5, 2018C-SPAN: Steve Brill on Journalism and “Fake News”

March 20, 2018MSNBC: This entrepreneur says he has the secret to stopping fake news on Facebook

March 15, 2018Daily Signal: With NewsGuard, 2 Longtime Journalists Enlist in War on Fake News

March 8, 2018Bill O’Reilly No Spin News: NewsGuard Technologies to Release Website to combat Fake News

March 7, 2018Business Insider: The former publisher of the Wall Street Journal says Facebook and Google don’t really want to be the ones solving their fake news problem — so he hopes to do it for them

March 7, 2018CNBC: News Guard tackling ‘fake news’ epidemic

March 6, 2018The Observer: Can Human Journalists Beat Algorithms at Sniffing Out Fake News?

March 6, 2018MediaPost: Why NewsGuard, Aimed At Fighting Fake News, Won’t Work

March 5, 2018CBS: New venture aims to combat “fake news” on social media with warning labels

March 5, 2018Axios: Coming this fall: ‘nutrition labels’ for news

March 5, 2018Ad Week: Will This Rating Platform Really Protect Your Brand From Fake News?

March 5, 2018Nieman Labs: This new initiative deploys humans to review, research, and rate U.S. news sites

March 5, 2018MSNBC: Veteran Journalist launching new venture to weed out ‘fake news’

March 5, 2018MediaPost: Brill, Crovitz Launch NewsGuard To Rate Sources, Fight Fake News

March 5, 2018Washington Examiner: Steve Brill’s plan: How not to address the fake news problem

March 4, 2018The Wall Street Journal: A New Business Takes On Fake News

March 4, 2018CNN: This start-up wants to evaluate your news sources

March 3, 2018Washington Post: A journalistic fix for fake news? A new venture seeks to take on the epidemic.

Press Releases

January 16, 2019NewsGuard Now Available on Microsoft Edge Mobile Apps for iOS and Android

January 16, 2019Toledo Lucas County Public Library Joins NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

January 9, 2019Gallup Research Finds NewsGuard Ratings of News Websites Effective in Countering False Information, Misinformation and Disinformation

December 17, 2018Hawaii Public Libraries Join NewsGuard in News Literacy Partnership

November 19, 2018NewsGuard Launches ‘Human Intelligence’ BrandGuard Service to Help Advertisers Keep their Brands Off of ‘Fake News’ Websites

November 8, 2018Stony Brook University and NewsGuard Team Up for News Literacy Initiative

November 5, 2018NewsGuard Recognized with Leading Magazine Award for Innovation

October 29, 2018NewsGuard’s Misinformation SWAT Team Issues Red Ratings to Two Networks Publishing Dozens of Hoax Websites

August 23, 2018NewsGuard Announces Launch of Free Browser Plugin with Support from Microsoft

April 18, 2018NewsGuard Announces Addition of Two Veteran Journalists to Analyst Team

March 5, 2018Brill and Crovitz Announce Launch of NewsGuard to Fight Fake News