Automotive News media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Automotive News in the centre. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is Automotive News biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Automotive News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Automotive News left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Automotive News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Automotive News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Automotive News are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Automotive News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Automotive News’s own report linked underneath.
Brussels has urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to increase customs duties on Chinese cars and align UK trade policy with the EU. The EU suggested joining the customs union as a solution to avoid potential trade barriers on British exports.
Automotive News reported it asEU urges Britain to raise tariffs on Chinese cars to avoid ‘Made in Europe’ exclusion, report says (opens Automotive News in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
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
- Ad Fontes MediahighCheck it
Who owns it
- Crain CommunicationsMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Detroit, Wayne County, Michigan, United States
- Official site
- autonews.com
- Seen publishing on
- autonews.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story Automotive News appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 25 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Automotive News, 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 Automotive News 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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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.