Business Wire media bias and reliability
Business Wire is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Business Wire biased?
Business Wire is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Business Wire left or right?
Business Wire is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is Business Wire reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Business Wire. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What Business Wire has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Business Wire’s own report linked underneath.
LNG Canada's partners have approved a $33 billion Phase 2 expansion, which will double the facility's production capacity to 28 million tonnes of LNG per year. The project is expected to create up to 4,000 construction jobs and hundreds of permanent positions.
Business Wire reported it asFluor Joint Venture Selected for LNG Canada Phase 2 Expansion Following ... (opens Business Wire in a new tab)
Two giant pandas, Ping Ping and Fu Shuang, have arrived in Atlanta from China on a 10-year loan to Zoo Atlanta. Their arrival follows Chinese leader Xi Jinping's state visit to Washington.
Business Wire reported it asGiant Pandas Ping Ping and Fu Shuang Arrive in Atlanta on the FedEx ... (opens Business Wire in a new tab)
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
Business Wire reported it asApple unveils iPhone Duo (opens Business Wire in a new tab)
Apple CEO John Ternus posted a cryptic video ahead of the company's expected iPhone 18 Pro unveiling. The video appears to hint at a new variable aperture camera feature for the device, which is set to be announced alongside new Apple Watch models.
Business Wire reported it asApple unveils iPhone Duo (opens Business Wire in a new tab)
Chevron announced plans to invest over $7 billion in Venezuela, targeting 600,000 barrels per day by 2031. The deal follows a US government push to revive Venezuela’s oil industry, including Pentagon profit-sharing, but analysts question its legal and political durability.
Business Wire reported it asChevron Expands Position in Venezuela (opens Business Wire in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed Business Wire. We asked on 1 October 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
- Berkshire HathawayCorporationdirect owner
- Warren Buffettunknownparent group
- Howard BuffettBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Crystal River, Citrus County, Florida, United States
- Official site
- businesswire.com
- Seen publishing on
- businesswire.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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 1 September 2026
5 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Business Wire has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Business Wire: its report arrived a median of 22 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 16 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 October 2026. Ratings pulled 1 October 2026.
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