Left, centre and right on one page
Each story carries an account of how each part of the spectrum told it, written here from the reporting rather than lifted out of it, with the outlets behind each account named and linked.
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A free media bias checker
Look up a news outlet and see where named rating organisations place it. Open a story and see how the outlets that ran it split between left, centre and right, what each side emphasised, and where one side is not covering it at all.
2,489
news outlets on file
1,380
carrying a leaning published by a named rating organisation
355
we have seen cover a story compared here
23
coverage comparisons published so far
What this site does
One page per story, with every side that covered it
The comparison is the product rather than a feature of it, which is why none of it sits behind a payment.
Every outlet that ran it, listed
Not a selection. The full list, each entry with the leaning a rating organisation has published for it and a link to the outlet’s own report, so any part of the comparison can be checked against the source.
What one side is not covering
Where a story has been followed to the end and one side never ran it, that is reported as a finding. While it is still being followed, the page says that instead — an absence we have not finished measuring is not yet a fact about the press.
How the coverage split is worked out
Four steps, and one of them is somebody else’s work
The bar on every story is arithmetic over published ratings, not a judgement made here. It is worth knowing exactly which part is ours.
Collect the outlets
Every publisher we can see carrying the story goes into the list, wherever it sits and whether or not anybody has rated it.
Take each outlet’s published leaning
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check publish ratings for news outlets. Each one appears on that outlet's page here against the organisation that made it, with a link to their entry. None of them is ours.
Reduce seven levels to three
Far left, left and leans left become Left; leans right, right and far right become Right; centre stays centre. An outlet nobody has placed is never rounded into the centre — it is set aside and counted separately.
Divide, and say by what
The percentages are shares of the outlets carrying a rating. The source list under them is every outlet that ran the story, rated or not, so the two figures do not match and each page says which is which.
Worked example — a story on the site now
Ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
Left 27%(18)Centre 40%(26)Right 33%(22)
Percentages are shares of the 66 outlets carrying a published leaning rating. 29 of the 95 outlets we know ran this story carry no rating and are not counted in them. Coverage measured .
And the three scores on the same story
- Trust
- 62
- Craft
- 51
- Hype
- 41
The three scores
Trust, Craft and Hype — about the reporting, not the events
Every story carries three numbers, and each one is published with the sentence explaining where it landed and why.
Trust
0–100 · higher is better
How well corroborated and evidenced the original reporting is. It earns points for sources named on the record, documents quoted directly and independent outlets carrying the same thing; it loses them where the central claim rests on anonymous sourcing alone. A low score is not an accusation of dishonesty — it means there is less here that you or we can check.
Craft
0–100 · higher is better
The quality of the journalism, separately from how well sourced it is: context, a right of reply, fact kept clearly apart from comment, specific figures and dates. It loses points for a press release reproduced with nothing added, and for a headline the body does not support.
Hype
0–100 · lower is better
How far the presentation runs ahead of the substance. Measured, proportionate language scores low. Above 60 means heavy clickbait, manufactured outrage, or a headline the article itself cannot carry. It is the one score where the low number is the good outcome, and the page says so wherever it appears.
The full scoring rules, the models that run them, the prompt revision in force and the reason the previous revision was replaced are all published. Read the methodology.
Live from the site
Comparisons published so far
23 stories have been published. These are the newest, with the coverage split shown on the card where it has been measured.
Politics3 min read•4 August 2026
Trump appoints Jennifer Hegseth to chair military spouses commission
Commission will submit annual recommendations on housing, employment and education for military families
Left 5%Centre 54%Right 41%
64 outlets ran thisRead →
Science & Tech4 min read•4 August 2026
Apple Removes Then Restores Telegram on iOS App Store Over CSAM Content
The messaging app was briefly unavailable for download after Apple found violating material, which Telegram removed
Left 19%Centre 29%Right 52%
36 outlets ran thisRead →
Politics4 min read•4 August 2026
New York Mayor Mamdani Faces Backlash Over Rising Anti-Jewish Hate Crimes
Jewish leaders link the increase to Mamdani's criticism of Israel and his exclusion of Jewish voices from advisory panels
Left 7%Centre 33%Right 60%
16 outlets ran thisRead →
Conflict & Security3 min read•4 August 2026
Ship attacked in Strait of Hormuz, UKMTO reports
Incident occurred 37 km northeast of Al Khasab, Oman, with no immediate details on damage or injuries
Left 27%Centre 40%Right 33%
95 outlets ran thisRead →
Politics4 min read•4 August 2026
US State Department to close five foreign missions in downsizing
Closures in Canada, Japan, Indonesia, Cameroon and Grenada mark a rare reduction in America’s diplomatic footprint
Left 16%Centre 52%Right 32%
23 outlets ran thisRead →
Conflict & Security3 min read•4 August 2026
Cargo vessel hit by projectile off Oman, UKMTO confirms investigation
No casualties reported after incident 20 nautical miles northeast of Al Khasab, amid regional tensions
MediaBias Comparison DeskRead →
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Is that outlet biased? Here is who says what
Every publisher that appears in a coverage list here gets a page: the leaning each rating organisation published for it, each one shown against its author and linked, plus our own record of how often we have seen it cover a story. 1,380 of the 2,489 outlets on file carry a published leaning; the rest are marked unrated rather than assumed to be centre.
Times of IndiaLeans rightAnadolu AjansıLeans rightThe IndependentLeans leftJerusalem PostCentreArutz ShevaLeans rightTribune IndiaLeans rightWTVBCentreAl JazeeraLeans leftDevdiscourseCentreDigi 24CentreGloboLeans rightProtothemaRight
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Is Ground News free, and is this an alternative to it?
Ground News is a real product, built by people who have been at this longer than we have, and this section is not going to pretend otherwise. It can be read without paying, and it sells subscription plans covering its fuller analysis. What those include and what they cost are theirs to set, so check their site rather than our summary of it.
What we can tell you about is this site. Three things are true here, and they are the reasons to use it.
Free, in full
No paywall, no account, no article limit, and no part of the comparison reserved for a paid tier. The intention is to pay for it with advertising and editorial work rather than with readers; nothing is sold on it yet, which is why there is no advertising on this page.
The method is published, revisions included
The scoring rules, the prompt revision that produced the scores you see, the reason the previous revision was replaced, and the plagiarism gate that rejects a draft reusing a source’s sentences are all on the methodology page. So is the corrections log.
Each side is written here, in our own words
We do not republish anybody’s paragraphs, and we do not re-badge anybody’s rating as an assessment of ours. Third-party ratings appear with the rater named. Our own writing is written from the facts, and every report it was written from is linked.
What is missing here is scale. This site started publishing in 2026 and has 23 comparisons up at the time you are reading this. Every number on this page is the real one, counted on the request, which is the only claim about ourselves we are in a position to make.
Questions
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Is Ground News free?
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Is there a free alternative to Ground News?
This site is one. MediaBias News publishes the same kind of comparison — which outlets ran a story, where each of them sits on the political spectrum, and what each side emphasised — without a subscription. It is younger and much smaller: 23 comparisons published and 2489 outlets on file so far. Everything it holds is public.
What is a media bias checker?
A way of finding out where a news outlet sits on the political spectrum, and how a story's coverage was distributed across it. On this site it is two things. Each publisher has a page carrying the leaning that AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check have published for it, with every rating shown against the organisation that made it. Each story has a bar showing how the outlets that ran it split between left, centre and right.
What is the best unbiased news source?
No single outlet is unbiased, and one advertising itself as unbiased is making a claim it cannot support. The nearest thing to unbiased news is the same event read as several outlets across the spectrum told it, with attention to what only some of them said. This site does not offer you a neutral outlet. It shows you the spread and links to every report in it, so the judgement stays yours.
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How do you decide whether an outlet is left, centre or right?
We do not decide it. Each outlet carries the leaning that named rating organisations — AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check — have published about it, shown on the outlet's page against the organisation that made it and linked to their entry. Where nobody has placed an outlet it is marked unrated and left out of the percentages rather than rounded into the centre.
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Does MediaBias News take a side?
It publishes what each side reported and links to it, so the comparison can be checked. Where outlets disagree on a fact, the disagreement is reported rather than settled by us. Where only one part of the spectrum has covered something, that absence is reported too — once the story has been watched long enough for the absence to mean anything.
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