AM New York media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place AM New York as leaning left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is AM New York biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place AM New York as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is AM New York left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place AM New York as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is AM New York reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for AM New York are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What AM New York has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with AM New York’s own report linked underneath.
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a coalition of Democratic-led cities and states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule. The rule would allow immigration officials to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.
AM New York reported it as‘Cruelty is the point’: NYC, NY AG challenge Trump rule expanding ‘public charge’ test for green cards (opens AM New York in a new tab)
Police shot and killed a man on the Brooklyn Bridge early Friday after he climbed the cables, brandished a knife, and moved towards officers. The man had claimed he had a bomb and wanted to die.
AM New York reported it asBREAKING: Cops shoot knife-wielding man on Brooklyn Bridge (opens AM New York in a new tab)
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
AM New York reported it asICE agent appears to point gun at person filming him in Queens (opens AM New York in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked New York's law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate change damages. The judge found the state law conflicted with federal authority, particularly the Clean Air Act.
AM New York reported it asNY federal judge strikes down state law that would have made fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion for climate change effects (opens AM New York in a new tab)
Operation Rotten Apple, a federal immigration enforcement initiative, resulted in the detention of over 2,100 migrants in New York. Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin announced the operation's findings, criticizing state and city politicians for sanctuary policies.
AM New York reported it asMullin disparages New York as a ‘crime-ridden city’ while threatening surge of more ICE agents to arrest immigrants (opens AM New York in a new tab)
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has cancelled its planned 2027 Met Gala exhibition featuring designer John Galliano. The decision follows significant backlash over the designer's past antisemitic and racist comments.
AM New York reported it asMenin applauds Met’s decision to cancel Galliano exhibit amid antisemitism concerns (opens AM New York in a new tab)
A New York appellate judge lifted a temporary restraining order, allowing New York City to proceed with its pied-à-terre tax rollout while a lawsuit from homeowners challenging the process continues. The tax, championed by Mayor Zohran Mamdani, has drawn opposition from President Donald Trump and legal scrutiny over its implementation.
AM New York reported it asAppeals court says NYC can continue rolling out pied-a-terre tax, at least through August (opens AM New York in a new tab)
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani met privately with 10 rabbis to discuss antisemitism and his rhetoric on Israel. Jewish leaders expressed concerns about his language, while Mamdani’s office called the meeting productive. A poll found 66% of Jewish New Yorkers disapprove of him.
AM New York reported it asRabbis say Mamdani listened to them. Now they’re waiting on his plan to fight antisemitism. (opens AM New York in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Schneps MediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 4
- First seen
- 13 August 2026
4 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 4 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 5 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and AM New York ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of AM New York: its report arrived a median of 11 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 28 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 12 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as AM New York, 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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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.