U.S. Senate race will have two Dan Sullivans and a Mary Peltola

Alaska Public Media is rated 80 by the site and is a local news publisher. The article identifies its author and relies on election results and named candidates’ statements.

• ▸Source type — Established local public-media reporting is a strong basis for credibility.
• ▸Track record — The site's rating is 80, based on 10 stories.
• ▸Author attribution — The article names its reporter, Liz Ruskin.
• ▸Transparency — The report identifies preliminary election results and attributes statements to candidates and other sources.

The report grounds its account in preliminary state election results and includes statements from the candidates and relevant political actors. It gives useful race and fundraising context, though the results were preliminary and the story does not provide a direct response from Sen. Sullivan to Peltola’s criticism.

The report presents the candidates’ positions and includes context about the campaign dispute, fundraising and outside spending. It does not include a direct response from Sen. Sullivan to Peltola’s criticism of his record.

• ▸Counterarguments presented — The article includes the challenger’s explanation and reports the incumbent’s campaign’s effort to keep him off the ballot, but does not provide a direct incumbent response to Peltola’s policy criticism.
• ▸Source diversity — The report uses preliminary election results, candidates’ remarks, party and campaign statements, and fundraising information.
• ▸Loaded language — Most evaluative language is attributed to candidates or quoted from statements.
• ▸Omitted context — A direct response from Sen. Sullivan to the criticism of his votes is not included.

The report uses neutral language and attributes critical claims and campaign statements to the people who made them. Its account of the candidates’ dispute does not present an evident partisan framing.

• ▸Language tone — Mostly descriptive language; charged terms are quoted or attributed.
• ▸Source selection — The article includes statements from both major candidates as well as other relevant actors.
• ▸Framing — The story is framed around preliminary election results and the ballot implications of two candidates with the same name.
• ▸Headline — The headline describes the candidate-name circumstance without an apparent partisan judgment.