Cloverdale Reporter media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Cloverdale Reporter as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Cloverdale Reporter biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Cloverdale Reporter as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Cloverdale Reporter left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Cloverdale Reporter as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Cloverdale Reporter reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Cloverdale Reporter 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 Cloverdale Reporter has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Cloverdale Reporter’s own report linked underneath.
Claudette Jackson was fired from her job at a Kelowna retirement community for refusing a COVID-19 vaccine. She claimed her union did not represent her fairly, but the BC Labour Relations Board dismissed her application, stating the union acted within its scope.
Cloverdale Reporter reported it asFired for vaccine refusal, Kelowna woman's civil claims against union dismissed (opens Cloverdale Reporter 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
We hold no ownership record for Cloverdale Reporter.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- cloverdalereporter.com
- Seen publishing on
- cloverdalereporter.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 26 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 0 we could open, not on everything it published.
We have not seen Cloverdale Reporter cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Cloverdale Reporter’s on it. Its report was the first we hold on every one.
Measured 26 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 26 August 2026. Ratings pulled 26 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Cloverdale Reporter, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Cloverdale Reporter 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.