Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
What they cover
Crime & Law
50%
Sports
50%
Most-tagged topics
RotterdamUSA GymnasticsGCIGuardianMichigan State UniversityOlympicthe Indianapolis Starthe World Gymnastics Championships
Leaning
Not enough articles to place this byline.
1 scored article;
a leaning average needs at least 8 before it says more
about the writer than about which stories they happened to be assigned.
Their outlet averages -0.35
(leans left).
More from this journalist
Ordered by how many newsrooms covered the same event.
🔮 Heafford puts the unwillingness to engage with systemic change post-Nassar as “institutional fear, blinkeredness, and the fact that people who work in sport are not very creative. assertive
🔮 It has been 10 years since the Indianapolis Star published allegations of sexual abuse by Larry Nassar, the former team doctor for USA Gymnastics, setting off a chain of events that would lead to a reckoning for the sport. assertive
Forward-looking sentences extracted from their articles, oldest first.
Nothing here checks whether any of it turned out to be right.
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