You have unrestricted, free access to this book since it is open access. reveals biases in English news articles covering a certain political event by using an interdisciplinary approach. explains person-oriented framing analysis, a method for evaluating how the people who are portrayed in publications about events are portrayed. combines political science, computational linguistics, and computer science methods. Authors: Felix Hamborg This chapter serves as both a motivation and a summary of my study on bias in news reports. The problems brought on by biased news coverage are outlined in Section 1.1. It is impossible to overstate the significance of these challenges given the already significant impact that consistently skewed media coverage has had on society decisions—like democratic elections. Subsequently, Section 1.2 provides a concise overview of the research lacuna concerning the detection and dissemination of media bias. I establish my research topic and derive relevant resear