Grade the News is a media research project focusing on the quality of the news media in the San Francisco Bay Area. We are based at San Jose State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communications and affiliated with Stanford University?s Graduate Program in Journalism. We aim to provide timely critiques and in-depth, systematic analyses that allow the public to compare newspapers and local television news broadcasts on equal footing. Think of us as a kind of Consumer Reports for news.

Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Free Press does not support or oppose any candidate for public office. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media and universal access to communications.