Lehrer score 81/100 (starts at 85; +2 context: background or what came before: context: "Trump has repeated his desire for the three countries to ink a nuclear proliferation deal"; −6 unlabeled claim, analysis or opinion in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/10): "with whom Jensen Huang had an extramarital affair" stated as fact in its own voice; ABC News reports "concerns that he had an affair" and CNBC "reports that he had an affair"). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → B.

Lehrer score 78/100 (starts at 85; +4 named, on-record sources (2+): Microsoft, eToro analyst Josh Gilbert, Australian minister Tony Burke and Japan's Masanao Ozaki are quoted or cited by name; +3 primary document linked or cited (filing, ruling, data release, statement): cites Microsoft's service health notice on Exchange Online; +2 context: background or what came before: context: "Microsoft faced an outage with its 365 services in January this year and also in October last year"; −6 unlabeled claim, analysis or opinion in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/10): "one of the company's worst outages" is a judgment in its own voice with no source; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "a source familiar with the situation told Reuters" a Taiwanese firm canceled a bond repurchase (unnamed source, side point); −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "Another Taiwanese financial company resorted to using fax to confirm trades, a second source said" (unnamed source, side point)). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → C.

Lehrer score 74/100 (starts at 85; +2 one named, on-record source: Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith quoted from her video on X ("I respect the decision of Mississippi voters"); +2 context: background or what came before: Colom "becomes the first Democrat to win a Senate race in the Magnolia State since John Stennis in 1982"; Trump won the state "by 22.9% in 2024"; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "Colom garnered 49.2% of the vote, compared to Hyde-Smith's (R-Miss.) 48.7%, with more than 95% of the ballots tallied Wednesday" with no source for the count; −6 unlabeled claim, analysis or opinion in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/10): "in a massive rebuke of Trump and the GOP government in Washington" in its own voice; −4 loaded word or phrase in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/7/13): "a desperate bid to shore up support in ruby red Republican strongholds"; "The wipeout began shortly after polls closed"). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → C.

Lehrer score 64/100 (starts at 85; +4 other side quoted or given its response: "The secretary will not be deterred by the Iranian regime's threats," a Treasury spokesperson said in an emailed statement; +3 primary document linked or cited (filing, ruling, data release, statement): "A senior intelligence official in the Trump administration warned in a memo seen by Reuters"; +2 context: background or what came before: the campaign has run "since August"; the Strait of Hormuz "has been largely closed since the US and Israel attacked Iran on February 28"; −25 core claim rests only on anonymous sources (rule 11): the move itself rests only on unnamed sources: "two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday"; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "A source familiar with the matter said security concerns surrounding Bessent increased when the Wall Street Journal published an aerial view"). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → D.

Lehrer score 97/100 (starts at 85; +4 named, on-record sources (2+): Jared Kushner, Steve Witkoff, Vladimir Medinsky, Rustem Umerov and Sergey Lavrov are named; Medinsky hoped the meeting "will allow us to advance on the path towards peace"; +4 other side quoted or given its response: Putin's demands to pull back from Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson, and that "Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who was visiting Denmark on Tuesday, rejects Putin's demands to voluntarily cede territory"; +2 key numbers sourced: "Russia launched 162 drones of various types and a ballistic missile at Ukraine overnight, Ukraine's air force said"; Russia's Ministry of Defense "shot down 155 Ukrainian drones overnight"; +2 context: background or what came before: "The two-day session in the UAE's capital, Abu Dhabi, is the first such meeting since February"). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → A.

Lehrer score 72/100 (starts at 85; +3 primary document linked or cited (filing, ruling, data release, statement): the FDA's Nov. 9 drug safety communication quoted: "Consider discontinuing the GLP-1 RA in patients who develop NAION"; +2 context: background or what came before: "The warning follows a 2024 study"; −6 leaves out a fact or voice the other two pieces report / one side only (rule 5/13): leaves out the drugmakers' response, which CBS News and CNBC both report (Novo Nordisk: the data "do not establish a cause-and-effect relationship"); −6 leaves out a fact or voice the other two pieces report / one side only (rule 5/13): leaves out how rare the cases were in the FDA's trial review (about 6 in 100,000), which CBS News and CNBC both report; −3 talks down to the audience: bait headline or tease the piece doesn't deliver (rule 6): headline "incurable blindness condition" for what the FDA calls a "potential increased risk of rare NAION events"; −3 entertainment framing in news: hype, stings, celebrity angle over substance (rule 16): opens with a pun: "You're going to want to keep an eye on this."). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → C.

Lehrer score 82/100 (starts at 85; +4 named, on-record sources (2+): Solicitor General D. John Sauer and the per curiam ruling quoted; +3 primary document linked or cited (filing, ruling, data release, statement): "the unsigned per curiam ruling said" quoted at length; +2 context: background or what came before: Judge Kathleen Cardone, "an appointee of former President George W. Bush"; −6 leaves out a fact or voice the other two pieces report / one side only (rule 5/13): gives no voice to the challengers, whose arguments NBC News and Newsweek both report; −6 unlabeled claim, analysis or opinion in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/10): "adding to the administration's overwhelmingly positive record there" in its own voice). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → B.

Lehrer score 81/100 (starts at 85; +4 named, on-record sources (2+): Rep. Warren Davidson and Hegseth quoted by name; +4 other side quoted or given its response: Hegseth said the effort "won't work"; +2 context: background or what came before: "The last Cabinet secretary to be impeached was Biden administration Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas"; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "several House Republicans told Fox News Digital on Thursday that they believed Hegseth could very well be impeached" with none named; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "Sources said a combination of absences" with no source named; −4 loaded word or phrase in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/7/13): "GOP MIDTERM SLAUGHTER" in a Fox headline inside the article). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → B.

Lehrer score 71/100 (starts at 85; +4 named, on-record sources (2+): Sens. Bernie Moreno and James Lankford and Rep. Nicole Malliotakis quoted by name; +2 context: background or what came before: "The current CR was passed to cover the end of the last fiscal year ending Sept. 30 through next month"; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "one House Republican, granted anonymity to speak candidly"; −5 unnamed source on a side point, or a figure with no stated source (rule 11): "Some Democrats signaled to POLITICO" with none named; −6 leaves out a fact or voice the other two pieces report / one side only (rule 5/13): leaves out the Hegseth impeachment vote, which CBS News and CNBC both report as lame duck business; −4 profanity or graphic violence the story doesn't need (rule 12): "Closet is full of s—" in its own headline). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → C.

Lehrer score 92/100 (starts at 85; +4 named, on-record sources (2+): Judge Joel Bennathan and prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones quoted by name; +4 other side quoted or given its response: "Brand, 51, maintained his innocence throughout the trial"; +2 context: background or what came before: trial "began Oct. 12"; custody after "Thursday's guilty verdict"; −3 entertainment framing in news: hype, stings, celebrity angle over substance (rule 16): "his high-profile marriage to pop star Katy Perry" in a sentencing story). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → A.

Lehrer score 75/100 (starts at 85; +2 one named, on-record source: Trump quoted at length; +2 key numbers sourced: "a Fox News voter poll of more than 100,000 registered voters nationwide from Oct. 19 to Nov. 3, 2026"; +2 context: background or what came before: Talarico and the possible immigration deal; −4 loaded word or phrase in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/7/13): in-text headline "CONSERVATIVES STUNNED BY 'CATASTROPHIC' MIDTERM BLUE TSUNAMI"; −6 unlabeled claim, analysis or opinion in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/10): "which likely led to his policies facing backlash" in its own voice; −6 leaves out a fact or voice the other two pieces report / one side only (rule 5/13): leaves out that Trump named Stephen Miller chief of staff, which CBS and Newsweek both report). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → C.

Lehrer score 82/100 (starts at 85; +2 one named, on-record source: Biden quoted from his X post; +3 primary document linked or cited (filing, ruling, data release, statement): Biden's X post quoted at length; +2 context: background or what came before: what the memoir covers; −4 loaded word or phrase in the outlet's own voice (rule 2/7/13): in-text headline "BIDEN CONSPICUOUSLY ABSENT FROM CAMPAIGN TRAIL"; −6 leaves out a fact or voice the other two pieces report / one side only (rule 5/13): leaves out Hunter Biden's account that the cancer has spread, which NBC and Newsweek both report (Fox gives only a linked headline)). Fixed scale: 90+ A, 80s B, 70s C, 60s D, under 60 F → B.

Uses loaded words and uses an unnamed source or unsourced number.

Uses loaded words.

Uses an unnamed source or unsourced number.