How is the Star Score Determined

For each news article, the 10 criteria will be scored as “Satisfactory,” “Unsatisfactory” or “Not Applicable.” Total scores are posted for articles that have two or fewer “not applicable” ratings, and are expressed as proportions. For the purposes of display, the total scores are translated into a star rating.

1. Percent score assigned
2. “Star” score assigned

(If one or two items are rated ‘NA’, the denominator will be 8 or 9 rather than 10.)