City AM

Where the score comes from

Each technique the reading found, as a share of its articles. Tap one to read the passages.

• Uses a loaded wordA word in the outlet's own voice that carries a verdict the facts in the article do not.28%5 of 18
• One side gets the spaceOne side's voices fill the article when the story concerns both, and the other side appears only as numbers or not at all.22%4 of 18
• Headline goes beyond the articleThe headline states what the body does not support, drops the attribution the body gives, or puts in quotation marks words nobody in the article said.17%3 of 18
• Uses figures that misleadA number presented so it misleads: the wrong base, a cherry-picked period, a share passed off as a total, or a figure the article's own source contradicts.11%2 of 18
• Other techniquesWays of misleading the reading found that our list does not name yet. Each one is named in plain words on its article's page.6%1 of 18

Its most framed articles

From the last 90 days. Open one to read it with every flagged sentence marked.

1. 6.0Jobs apocalypse: Britain’s biggest firms cut more than 130,000 roles in two yearsCity AM's headline says Britain's biggest firms cut more than 130,000 roles, but the body counts announced and planned cuts from media reports too, including 'as many as' estimates.
2. 3.0Healey’s state pension shield could create ‘messy £200m cliff edge’City AM reports a former pensions minister's warning that the plan to keep low-income pensioners out of income tax will grow costly and create a cliff edge for those with small private pensions.
3. 3.0Instead of nostalgia for industries of the past Andy Burnham should look to the starsA comment piece by a Peel Hunt analyst argues that the government should back the UK space sector rather than steel, and sets out funding proposals.
4. 3.0Healey to ‘increase minimum wage by 3.9 per cent’City AM reports The Times's account of a 3.9 per cent rise in the minimum wage and sources it clearly.