Comparison
NewsGuard charges for paid access to journalist-rated trust scores. Web Jury is free, crowd-sourced, and shows you the full vote histogram.
| Feature | NewsGuard | Web Jury |
|---|---|---|
Pricing for readers | Paid subscription | Free |
Who rates Different failure modes — pick which one you trust more. | Trained journalist team | Trust-weighted crowd |
Number of outlets | ~10,000 | Thousands (growing) |
Methodology disclosure NewsGuard publishes their full scorecard. We publish trust-weighting math. | 9 criteria checklist | 3-vector trust-weighted |
Vote distribution shown | ||
Browser extension | Paid | Free |
Public API access | Enterprise only | Free + paid tiers |
Per-article rating | Coming Q2 | |
Reader can rate or vote |
NewsGuard is the most thorough editor-led tool in this space. Their team of journalists evaluates outlets against a 9-criteria checklist — fact-checking, corrections policy, byline transparency, etc. For an enterprise customer who wants a consistent, audit-trail-backed rating, NewsGuard is hard to beat.
For an individual reader who just wants to know "is this source reliable?", the friction is real. You pay for a subscription, you get one editor's read, and you can't see how the broader audience perceives the same outlet. That gap is the wedge Web Jury fills.
Both signals are useful. NewsGuard tells you what a panel of journalists concluded after a structured review. Web Jury tells you what {N} readers across the political spectrum actually think when they read the source. Use one as a check on the other.
Free, no signup needed to browse. See how thousands of outlets are rated.
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