Credible means: Coming from a person or organization that is a trusted expert on the topic you are researching. This means the source has a good reputation and reliable information. Reputation and reliability come from the fact that a source consistently follows ethics around how it creates, shares, and corrects its information.

• You can prove credibility if you can explain evidence of reputation, mission/purpose, methodology and expertise. 

• Other evidence to consider could include recency, bias and level of opinion vs. facts.

Questions you should ask to see if websites are credible:

• Who is the author or organization? Can I trust them? What is their reputation? What is their purpose?

• What type of source is this? What does that tell me about the source's purpose and reputation?

• Where did the information come from? Did they get it from credible sources?

The SIFT Method   more to come...

Newspaper Bias Spectrum