Asheville Citizen-Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Asheville Citizen-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 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Asheville Citizen-Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Asheville Citizen-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 Asheville Citizen-Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Asheville Citizen-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 Asheville Citizen-Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Asheville Citizen-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 Asheville Citizen-Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Asheville Citizen-Times’s own report linked underneath.
Democrat Jamie Ager has won North Carolina's 11th Congressional District, defeating Republican Jennifer Balkcom. The seat became open after Republican Rep. Chuck Edwards withdrew from the race.
Asheville Citizen-Times reported it asDemocrat Jamie Ager flips North Carolina's 11th Congressional District (opens Asheville Citizen-Times 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.
Asheville Citizen-Times reported it asNC see bump in 2026 early voting turnout compared to 2022 midterms (opens Asheville Citizen-Times 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.
Asheville Citizen-Times reported it asNC see bump in 2026 early voting turnout compared to 2022 midterms (opens Asheville Citizen-Times in a new tab)
The Social Security Administration has corrected records for nearly 15% of active Social Security numbers, adding missing death and citizenship data. The update follows concerns about improper benefit payments and a data security incident involving a third-party server.
Asheville Citizen-Times reported it asSocial Security database cleanup announced. Why is it happening? (opens Asheville Citizen-Times in a new tab)
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Asheville Citizen-Times reported it asTrump wishes Pope Leo well after lung cancer diagnosis (opens Asheville Citizen-Times 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.
Asheville Citizen-Times reported it asWho will replace Chuck Edwards? GOP begins search for new candidate (opens Asheville Citizen-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
- Asheville, Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States
- Official site
- citizen-times.com
- Seen publishing on
- citizen-times.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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 August 2026
6 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.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Asheville Citizen-Times ran the story anyway.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Asheville Citizen-Times: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 November 2026. Ratings pulled 10 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Asheville Citizen-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?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Asheville Citizen-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.
Report something wrong on this page
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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.