News literacy you can actually teach.

Most media literacy asks students to judge whether the news is biased. Clear-Sight teaches them to observe how every article is built — through ten language-based signals any reader, student, or educator can identify. The skill transfers from news to social, AI, and everything in between.

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Not a bias checker.
A news literacy framework.

Most tools — and most curricula — ask whether an article is biased. Clear-Sight asks how the article is built. Every signal in the framework is grounded in observable language patterns: word choice, framing structure, sourcing transparency, emotional activation. Either the pattern is present or it isn’t.

That is what makes news literacy teachable at scale, consistent across classrooms, and measurable with pre/post assessment. CSAF does not replace judgment. It gives judgment somewhere solid to stand — and the patterns students learn to see in news transfer directly to social, AI-generated, and persuasive media of every kind.

Read the methodological argument — News Literacy as Observation, Not Judgment

How It Works

Every article makes choices.
Clear-Sight shows you which ones.

Quantitative scores, plain-language explanations, direct evidence from the text, and research tools to go deeper. Built for transparency and trust.

The Profile

See how the article scores across ten dimensions.

Every article receives a score across all ten framework signals. A composite score for quick orientation. Individual scores for the deeper read. And a visual fingerprint that shows the article's construction pattern.

News Literacy

A lesson in media literacy — built into every article.

News Literacy explains what the article is doing, why those choices matter, and how the article could serve the reader differently. Every analysis becomes a teaching moment — for the reader, the student, or the newsroom.

Research Tools

The questions worth asking. Before you go further.

What context is missing. What claims deserve scrutiny. Where this article sits in the larger timeline. Whose perspectives were left out. A map of where a more complete understanding begins.

Deep Research

The first step in lateral reading.

Ask Clear-Sight searches across current reporting and returns a structured, multi-source view — additional perspectives, missing context, and independent data to evaluate the claims yourself.

Same framework. Different conversations.

Find your path

Ten signals. All language-based. All observable.

Balance, Logic, Autonomy, Evidence, Sourcing, Specificity, Consistency, Nuance, Context, and Claims. Each one evaluates a distinct dimension of article construction. Together, they give you a complete picture of how any article is built — and a shared vocabulary to talk about it.

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See what the headlines missed

Clear-Sight Vantage is our free news analysis publication. Every story is scored for objectivity, sourcing, and narrative steering — so you can see how the news is shaped before you form an opinion.

Objectivity scores for every article
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Analysis of NYT, Fox News, WSJ, NPR, CNN & more
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