ABC News

Overall Score Corrections Ownership Staff Policies Reporting Policies Interactivity 1.2

Ranking: Poor (tied with Fox News, The Economist and the Daily Telegraph). Details of Findings: There is no corrections page and even doing a search on the web site does not bring up corrections. The owner information can be found easily.  It is listed somewhere on the home page (top or bottom), within 1-2 clicks. However, they do not list specific names or information on the board of directors. No code of ethics or information on conflicts of interest. No news values anywhere on the web site or on the Google search. Even prolonged searches on search engines like Google returned no relevant results and instead returned stories with the phrase “News Values” in them instead of actual News Values. (Lisa Rassenti & Leah Cowdrey)

About ABC News

Circulation/Audience • ABC World News: Week of Feb 26, 9,570,000 (2006)
Online Access • No log-in needed.
Parent Company • The Walt Disney Company
Other Relevant Ownership and Interests •
ESPN http://www.espn.com
Buena Vista Television http://bventertainment.go.com/
10 Television and 72 Radio Stations, etc. http://corporate.disney.go.com/corporate/overview.html
Parent Company Revenue • $34.3 billion