Is Derbyshire Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Derbyshire Times in the centre. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Derbyshire Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Derbyshire Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Derbyshire Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Derbyshire Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Derbyshire Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Derbyshire 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 Derbyshire Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Derbyshire Times’s own report linked underneath.
The annual Perseid meteor shower reaches its peak between 12 and 13 August 2026, with up to 100 meteors per hour visible. A partial solar eclipse will occur on 12 August, offering a rare dual celestial event. Outlets varied in emphasis on timing, visibility, and the eclipse's coincidence.
Derbyshire Times reported it asDate Perseid meteor shower will reach its peak this week - and the best time frame to look for the Perseids (opens Derbyshire Times in a new tab)
The Environment Agency confirmed 71.3% of England is now in drought after four more areas were added. The fifth heatwave of the summer is expected to peak at 36°C, following the driest July on record since 1836 and over 2,800 heat-related deaths this year.
Derbyshire Times reported it asDrought officially declared in Derbyshire and East Midlands as conditions worsen (opens Derbyshire 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
- JPIMediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Derbyshire, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- derbyshiretimes.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- derbyshiretimes.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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
2 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. Derbyshire Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Derbyshire Times: its report arrived a median of 31 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 12 August 2026. Ratings pulled 12 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Derbyshire Times, 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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Derbyshire 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.
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