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Here is my fact sheet on Fox News vs. AP News.

Fox News, a cable news channel founded in 1996, is known for its conservative perspective. It features a mix of news coverage and opinion programming.

AP News, operated by the Associated Press and founded in 1846, is a non-profit news organization known for its commitment to impartial and accurate reporting, providing breaking news and in-depth analysis to media outlets worldwide.

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Focus - To me, it seems that most of the time Fox News appeals more-so to emotion and writes their articles in more of a story and conversational style rather than solely stating facts. AP News also contains these things, but their focus is on delivering facts without emotional language and bias.

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V.I.A. - Verifiability

Fox News - Fox News is a verifiable news source. Sometimes it might be more vague about a source which makes it a little bit questionable, but for the most part it does list sources to quotes, facts, etc.

AP News - AP News is also a verifiable news source. It gives credit and sources to the evidence, quotes and facts it includes in its stories.

Both of these sources also include bylines and information about the authors, as well as informational pages about the organizations.

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V.I.A. - Independence

Fox News - Fox News does not pass the independence part of the V.I.A. analysis because it is owned by Fox Corporation which is a part of a bigger media conglomerate.

AP News - AP News passes the independent part of the V.I.A. analysis because it is an independent news cooperative.

Fox News reports with more of a conservative perspective where AP News is said to be more impartial.

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V.I.A. - Accountability

Fox News - Fox News does publish corrections to inaccuracies they make, they just don't do so as commonly or openly as AP News does.

AP News - AP News is open to publishing corrections to the inaccuracies they make, and they commonly do so.

The corrections show the date it was corrected, which is good information to have and makes the sources more credible and transparent.

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Fox News Visual 1

In this article Fox News doesn't just give a broad overview of Hurricane Helene, it focuses in on the specific fact that "Hurricane Helene’s deadly flooding in western North Carolina disrupted the underground nests of stinging insects, causing them to swarm workers and residents trying to recover from the storm.

The surge of stings from yellow jackets, bees and other insects has prompted the state health department to buy Benadryl and epinephrine injections as aid groups also work to acquire the medications and get them to those in the affected areas."

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Hurricane Helene flooding in NC stirs yellow jacket swarms, prompting distribution of Benadryl and EpiPens

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Swarms of stinging insects in North Carolina are swarming those trying to recover from the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, prompting the distribution of Benadryl and epinephrine injections.

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Fox News Visual 2

This article's photographs and the wording of the title and text are a good example of Fox targeting the emotional appeal of its readers. The video included in the post includes emotional testimonies from residents affected by Hurricane Helene. This article is a good example of Fox kind of storytelling with its articles, because it includes this information and quote from someone who has a tragic story to tell from Hurricane Helene, "James LaTrella told Fox News Digital he lost his house in the storm.

"Two giant oak trees fell on our house and took out the whole left side … first floor and the whole left side on the second floor," LaTrell said. "I actually got sick to my stomach while seeing that. I was in shock."

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Hurricane Helene: North Carolina residents fight for their survival as basic goods become scarce

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Those affected by Hurricane Helene in the Southeast U.S. are now nearly five days without necessities, including water, gas, power and cellphone service.

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AP News Visual 1

Even though the title of this article could appeal to emotion with words like "missing" and "death toll," I view it more as stating facts and focusing on the magnitude of the situation and article. In the articles I found for my news stories log, magnitude was the second highest news driver for AP News.

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PENSACOLA, N.C. (AP) - Rescue crews and volunteers facing obstacles at every turn in North Carolina's remote mountains paddled canoes across swollen rivers and steered horses past mudslides in the rush to reach those stranded or missing by Hurricane Helene's rampage that killed more than 200 throughout the Southeast.

Now a week since the storm first roared onto Florida's Gulf Coast, the search continued for people who have yet to be heard from in places where phone service and electricity were knocked out. Pleas for help came from people running low on medicine or in need of fuel for their generators.

How many people are missing or unaccounted for isn't clear. The soared to 215 people on Thursday as more victims were found, making Helene the deadliest hurricane to hit the mainland U.S. since in 2005. Roughly half the victims were in North Carolina, while dozens more were killed in South Carolina and Georgia.

Each road presents a new challenge for rescuers

Along the Cane River in western North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains, rescuers from the Pensacola Volunteer Fire Department were cutting their way through trees at the top of a valley nearly a week after a wall of chocolate-milk colored water swept through for hours.

Pensacola, which sits a few miles from Mount Mitchell, the highest point east of the Mississippi River, lost an untold number of people, said Mark Harrison, chief medical officer for the department.

"We're starting to do recovery," he said Thursday. "We've got the most critical people out."

Harrison was helping dispatch volunteers driving all-terrain vehicles on supply runs to people still on ridgetops. Many don't want to leave their houses, while others lost their vehicles and need help getting to town.

Bradley Billheimer, who hiked down to the fire station to access the internet, said he just talked to his mom for the first time since the storm. He feared his house will be without power for months.

"I think we're going to walk out in a couple of days," he said.

In another county that sits alongside the Tennessee state line, crews were just finishing clearing main routes and reaching side roads that wind through switchbacks and cross small bridges that can be tricky to navigate even in the best weather. Each road presented a new challenge.

"Everything is fine and then they come around a bend and the road is gone and it's one big gully or the bridge is gone." said Charlie Wallin, a commissioner in Watauga County. "We can only get so far."

Most people the crews come across turn out to be fine and just in need of water, but every day there are new requests to check on someone who hasn't been heard from yet, Wallin said. When the search will end is hard to tell, he said.

"You hope you're getting closer, but it's still hard to know," he said.

A week into the search and rescue operations in Buncombe County, which includes the hard-hit tourist city of Asheville and where more than 72 have been killed, the county doesn't have an official tally of people who are unaccounted for or missing.

The county sheriff said his office believes more than 200 people are missing, although other officials said the number is constantly changing when crews make contact with people who hadn't been accounted for or receive new names of people who may be missing.

"We're continuing to find people. We know we have pockets of people who are isolated due to landslides and bridges out," said Avril Pinder, the county manager. "So they are disconnected but not missing."

Frank Johnson, who owns a company that makes robotic cutting machines in Mars Hill, North Carolina, said he feels like he is running a relief mission on his own. He's using his own workers, volunteers and supplies and know-how from his company to get water, food, fuel and other supplies to his neighbors.

"I've been hearing there are entire neighborhoods gone. I'm still not sure people have the whole grasp of what we're dealing with," Johnson said.

Electricity is being slowly restored, as the number of homes and businesses without power dipped below 1 million for the first time since last weekend, according to poweroutage.us. Most of the outages are in the Carolinas and Georgia, where Helene struck after coming into Florida on Sept. 26 as a Category 4 hurricane.

Heartbreaking deaths across the Southeast

John Savage said his grandparents were found hugging one another in their Beech Island, South Carolina, home where one of the biggest trees on the property crashed on top of their bedroom and killed them.

The family thinks it was God's plan to take them together, rather than one suffer without the other, he said.

"When they pulled them out of there, my grandpa apparently heard the tree snap beforehand and rolled over to try and protect my grandmother," Savage said.

Two firefighters killed when a tree fell on their truck also were among at least 40 people killed across South Carolina.

Month-old twin boys, born in mid-August, were the youngest known victims. Khyzier and Khazmir Williams died alongside their 27-year-old mother Kobe Williams when a large tree fell through the roof of their home Monday in Thomson, Georgia.

Kobe's father, Obie Lee Williams, said he's devastated that he will never have the chance to meet his grandsons in person. He described his daughter as a lovable, social and strong young woman who cared deeply about her family.

Other young victims of the storm include a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy from Washington County, Georgia.

Biden back in the disaster zone

President Joe Biden spoke with survivors and first responders and surveyed damage Thursday in Keaton Beach, Florida, walking past mountains of splintered wood, demolished homes and massive pieces of siding crumpled like paper. Biden met with people who had lost homes; one couple was living out of a trailer near the wreckage of their home, their personal belongings strewn on the ground.

Later at a badly damaged pecan farm outside Valdosta, Georgia, he said the victims of Helene had gone through "hell."

"I want you to know I see you ... I grieve with you," Biden said while also thanking emergency workers and saying it was a moment to "put politics aside."

Biden flew over the devastation in North and South Carolina on Wednesday. The administration announced a federal commitment to foot the bill for debris removal and emergency protective measures for six months in North Carolina and three months in Georgia. The money will address the impacts of landslides and flooding and cover costs of first responders, search and rescue teams, shelters, and mass feeding.

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This story was updated to correct that the federal government will pay for debris removal and emergency protective measures for three months, not six months, in Georgia.

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Seewer reported from Toledo, Ohio. Contributing to this report were Associated Press journalists Jeffrey Collins in Columbia, South Carolina; Darlene Superville in Keaton Beach, Florida; Michael Kunzelman in College Park, Maryland; Hannah Fingerhut in Des Moines, Iowa; and Hannah Schoenbaum in Salt Lake City.

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The search for the missing hits snags at every corner as Helene's death toll tops 200

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Searchers are combing the remote mountains of North Carolina to locate the missing and those needing supplies nearly a week after Hurricane Helene barreled through the Southeast.

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AP News Visual 2

This article's title is more of an emotional appeal than the first AP News visual because it states, "...thousands still without water struggle to find enough." This article includes personal statements from people affected by Hurricane Helene as well as possible steps to take next to help aid in the recovery from Hurricane Helene.

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A week after Helene hit, thousands still without water struggle to find enough

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Hurricane Helene severely damaged drinking water utilities in the Southeast. Western North Carolina was especially hard hit.

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Conclusion - In the articles presented for the visuals, each source has a title that appeals more to emotion and one that isn't as emotional. I think overall in a comparison between Fox News and AP News, like I have stated before, to me it seems like Fox News engages their audience more commonly in an emotional way, and AP News is more straightforward. Fox News and AP News both present facts, but Fox News does so in more of a storytelling way and AP News is more clear, concise and to the point.

Both Fox News and AP News are credible sources, but Fox News is a more biased news source and it isn't an independent source, so if someone wanted to read a more neutral news story, I would point them to AP News rather than Fox News.

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In this video I talk about what I've learned and discovered from this project.