Improving Journalism through the Web: Framework for Media Bias Mitigation

In this paper, we present our multidisciplinary research on a major problem of journalism, i.e., the media bias problem. Bias in the news media often causes a sharp increase in political polarization and in the cost of conflict on social issues such as the Iraq war. Bias in news articles is much complex than explicit expression of opinion or sentiments. It is difficult, if not impossible, for readers to have penetrating views on realities against such bias. While the problem has been extensively studied in the area of mass communication and journalism, effective solutions are barely developed. We investigate the media bias problem from a computational perspective and propose a practical solution.