Birmingham Mail media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Birmingham Mail one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 3 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Birmingham Mail biased?
The rating organisations do not give Birmingham Mail one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; 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 Birmingham Mail left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Birmingham Mail one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Birmingham Mail reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Birmingham Mail 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 Birmingham Mail has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Birmingham Mail’s own report linked underneath.
The UK government must decide whether to approve production at the Jackdaw gas field after a public consultation closes on 12 August 2026. Environmental groups warn of climate risks, while industry and unions argue the move would protect jobs and energy security. The Conservatives previously approved the project, but a court overturned the decision in 2025.
Birmingham Mail reported it asAndy Burnham faces decision on North Sea drilling as key date approaches (opens Birmingham Mail in a new tab)
England and Wales have withdrawn support for FIFA president Gianni Infantino over plans to sell minority stakes in FIFA Forward Enterprises, valued at $20bn, to private equity. The Scottish FA has not commented, while its president chairs FIFA’s Finance Committee.
Birmingham Mail reported it asFIFA's Gianni Infantino apologises for 'mistakes' in World Cup sale plan (opens Birmingham Mail in a new tab)
Serbia's football association withdrew support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid, joining European opposition after FIFA's failed $4.2 billion tournament stake sale. The reversal came 70 days after Serbia initially backed Infantino, with the association calling for new leadership to restore trust in global football governance.
Birmingham Mail reported it asFIFA's Gianni Infantino apologises for 'mistakes' in World Cup sale plan (opens Birmingham Mail 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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Reach plcMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Birmingham, West Midlands, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- birminghammail.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- birminghammail.co.uk
- 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
- 3
- Reports listed
- 3
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Birmingham Mail is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 3 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Birmingham Mail: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 15 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Birmingham Mail, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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 Birmingham Mail 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
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.