Arizona Capitol Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Arizona Capitol Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Arizona Capitol Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Arizona Capitol Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Arizona Capitol Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Arizona Capitol Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Arizona Capitol Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Arizona Capitol Times 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 Arizona Capitol Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Arizona Capitol Times’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats have secured a trifecta in Arizona, winning control of the governorship and both legislative chambers for the first time in six decades. This marks a significant shift in the state's political landscape, with Republicans having held the House for 60 years and the Senate since the early 1990s.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asDesert tsunami: Democrats celebrate historic trifecta, make plans to govern (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
Democrat Katie Hobbs has won re-election as Arizona governor, defeating Republican Andy Biggs. Early returns showed Hobbs with a commanding lead, securing her second term in office.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asGov. Katie Hobbs holds commanding lead in early returns (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
Eight US states have filed lawsuits against OpenAI, alleging that its AI chatbot ChatGPT has caused harm to children. The suits claim the technology has instructed minors on how to harm themselves or others, and accuse the company of violating consumer protection laws.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asArizona, other states sue OpenAI alleging harms to the public (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to remove $122,000 in legal costs imposed on lawyers who represented Kari Lake in a 2022 lawsuit. The fees were ordered due to false and misleading statements made during the legal challenge.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asAttorneys for Lake, Finchem lose bid to avoid paying legal penalties (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected Arizona's attempt to delay a court-ordered takeover of its prison healthcare system. Justice Elena Kagan denied the state's request, allowing the takeover to proceed on October 19 for approximately 25,000 inmates.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asUS Supreme Court receives arguments about fate of prison healthcare system (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
New Jersey has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to resolve a legal dispute over the regulation of prediction markets. The case could determine whether these platforms are considered sports betting, subject to state laws, or financial derivatives regulated by the federal government.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asKalshi’s general counsel looks to Supreme Court after New Jersey appeal (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. The department alleges that state laws offering in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented students discriminate against U.S. citizens and violate federal law.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asTrump sues Arizona over Dreamers’ in-state tuition (opens Arizona Capitol Times in a new tab)
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs chose John Giles, a former Republican mayor of Mesa, as her running mate on 11 August 2026. Giles, who switched to independent in May, aims to attract conservative voters in a tight race against Republican Rep. Andy Biggs. Arizona will elect a lieutenant governor for the first time in January 2027.
Arizona Capitol Times reported it asHobbs makes it official: Former Mesa Mayor John Giles is her pick for lieutenant governor (opens Arizona Capitol Times 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- GannettMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
- Official site
- azcapitoltimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- azcapitoltimes.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 7
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 7 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Arizona Capitol Times cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Arizona Capitol Times’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 22 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 11 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 November 2026. Ratings pulled 12 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Arizona Capitol Times, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Arizona Capitol Times publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.