Request a NewsGuard Rating for Your Website

Thank you for your interest in having your website rated by NewsGuard. NewsGuard is an independent, apolitical service that rates and reviews news and information websites based on simple, widely accepted journalistic standards. Ratings are conducted by a team of journalists and editors from varied backgrounds and are based on NewsGuard’s nine journalistic criteria. Details of the criteria and rating process can be found here.

Our ratings are conducted by journalists—not done automatically by algorithms—in a rigorous and time-intensive process. As a result, we regret that we cannot rate every website that is recommended to us right away—even when a representative of the publication has requested a rating. To ensure the greatest likelihood that your website will be rated by NewsGuard promptly and accurately, we kindly ask that you provide some basic information that can expedite the process.

If your answers on this questionnaire include explanations of your journalistic practices or other noteworthy information, we may include quotes from your responses in our Nutrition Label. In other words, please consider your responses to this form to be on the record.

  • Basic Information

    Please provide the following basic information about the website to be rated.
  • Please provide the URL of your website.
  • (If different from website.)
  • Please provide a person whom we can contact. This should be someone who can comment or answer questions on behalf of your publication.

  • Information for Rating Process

    Please provide the following information that will help us expedite our rating process. If you do not know the answer to a question, please leave it blank or write “I don’t know.” The more questions you are able to answer, the more quickly we’ll be able to complete our rating process.
    One of our nine criteria examines whether a website corrects errors.
  • (If you do not have examples of recent corrections to share, please feel free to comment below about your publication’s practices for correcting errors.)
  • Please provide a link and/or details of the policy. (This may not be required to meet our criterion.)
  • This may not be required to pass our criteria (but if such policies exist, we may reference them in our Nutrition Label).
  • If so, please provide a link. If not, please feel free to comment.
  • If so, please provide a link. If not, please feel free to comment.
  • (For example, some publications provide this information on each article as part of the byline.) If so, please link to at least one example. If not, feel free to comment.
  • One of our criteria addresses whether such content is labeled clearly so that users know it is paid for by a third party.
  • Please describe any such recognition here.
  • NewsGuard’s Nutrition Labels often highlight important or impactful reporting a publication has done. If such content exists, please describe or provide link(s) here.
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