13 News Now media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place 13 News Now in the centre. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is 13 News Now biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place 13 News Now in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is 13 News Now left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place 13 News Now in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is 13 News Now reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for 13 News Now are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What 13 News Now has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with 13 News Now’s own report linked underneath.
Virginia voters approved a constitutional amendment repealing the state's ban on same-sex marriage. The measure guarantees marriage rights for all couples, irrespective of sex, gender, or race, and replaces the original 2006 ban.
13 News Now reported it asVirginia voters approve marriage equality amendment (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
13 News Now reported it asWhat record early voting turnout means for North Carolina midterms (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
On Tuesday, Americans vote in the 2026 midterms that will decide whether Republicans keep their narrow House majority and Senate seats. Trump faces low approval ratings, a war with Iran and a costly cost‑of‑living squeeze, while polls show 54% of his base would back him even if he loses.
13 News Now reported it asWhat record early voting turnout means for North Carolina midterms (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
US news outlets will announce midterm election winners before all votes are tallied, using data from the Associated Press or Decision Desk HQ. These providers use vote counts, statistical analysis, and modeling to project outcomes, though past race calls have been retracted.
13 News Now reported it asElection Results - November 3, 2026 (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
Newly released police body-camera footage shows the aftermath of a shooting at Richneck Elementary School in Newport News, Virginia, where a six-year-old boy shot his first-grade teacher, Abigail Zwerner. The footage was shown as evidence in a criminal trial and was later unsealed.
13 News Now reported it asNewly unsealed body-camera video shows moments after Richneck Elementary shooting (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
The Senate Leadership Fund, a major Republican super PAC, is halting its advertising in North Carolina's Senate race and redirecting funds to Kansas. The move signals a strategic shift as Republicans focus on retaining their Senate majority.
13 News Now reported it asSenate Republicans move cash from purple North Carolina to red Kansas as battle for majority shifts (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
Thousands of protesters are expected on the National Mall for the "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. The event follows a Supreme Court decision that reinterpreted the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
13 News Now reported it asCivil rights groups make urgent plea for voting rights in DC, ahead of midterm elections (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
The US Navy is reviewing plans to rename a Ford-class aircraft carrier currently designated USS Doris Miller, a Black sailor recognised for heroism at Pearl Harbor. Sources say internal discussions include honouring Donald Trump, which would be unprecedented for a sitting president.
13 News Now reported it asNavy considers renaming carrier slated to honor Black war hero, possibly switching it to President Trump (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
Rep. Chuck Edwards (R-N.C.) announced he will not seek re-election after the House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence of sexual harassment. The committee recommended censure, citing lavish gifts and inappropriate behavior toward two women staffers. Edwards will complete his current term.
13 News Now reported it asNorth Carolina congressman Edwards quits reelection bid after committee recommends his censure (opens 13 News Now in a new tab)
Who says so
3 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- Tegna Inc.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Norfolk, Virginia, United States
- Official site
- 13newsnow.com
- Seen publishing on
- 13newsnow.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
9 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. 13 News Now is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of 13 News Now: its report arrived a median of 31 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 7 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 7 November 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as 13 News Now, also publishing from United States, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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