Publisher
The third step in the DAPPR test is to look at the publisher of your source. The publisher of your source should be reputable (well-known and trusted) and credible (believable), and they should ideally have a publishing focus that relates to your topic (i.e., you would probably not want to read an article about COVID-19 vaccine strategies from the Shakespeare Quarterly). If your source was published by a newspaper or other news organization, please determine that the newspaper uses factual reporting.
Who the publisher is depends on what type of source you are using. Please watch the videos below to understand how to find information about each type of publisher.
Article Publishers
A scholarly journal article is published by a scholarly journal! Other articles, such as magazine articles or newspaper articles, will be published by magazines or newspapers. This video explains how to find information about a journal and why it's important.
Book Publishers
Books are published by publishers, such as Random House or Penguin, or a university press such as the University of California Press.
Website Publishers
Websites are published (created) by an organization or a person. For example, the Bakersfield College website is published by Bakersfield College, so if we were evaluating the publisher of the BC website, we would evaluate BC.
If you are evaluating a newspaper, the website Media Bias Fact Check can be useful to help you determine if the news organization is known for factual reporting or not--simply type the name of the news organization into the search bar.