Deseret News media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Deseret News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 15 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Deseret News biased?
The rating organisations do not give Deseret News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Deseret News left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Deseret News one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Deseret News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Deseret News 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 Deseret News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Deseret News’s own report linked underneath.
Utah has filed 13 felony charges against prediction market operator Kalshi and its co-founders. The state attorney general alleges the company continues to operate in Utah despite a federal court ruling, escalating a dispute over regulatory authority.
Deseret News reported it asUtah charges Kalshi and its co-founders with felonies over sports bets (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
Erika Kirk is pushing back against a defense proposal to delay the murder trial of Tyler Robinson until 2029. She is asking a judge to set a trial date in 2027, arguing that further delays will prolong the family's suffering and noting the significant cost of the defense.
Deseret News reported it asTyler Robinson doesn’t anticipate trial until 2029 (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
The USS Abraham Lincoln returned to San Diego on October 8, 2026, after nearly 11 months at sea. The deployment supported operations in the Middle East and Pacific, including actions related to the Iran war, and the crew received a Presidential Unit Citation.
Deseret News reported it asHistoric homecoming: Sea-weary, battle-tested USS Lincoln arrives in San Diego (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
D. Todd Christofferson, a leader in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, warned that online prediction markets and sports betting are promoting greed, especially among young people. He spoke at the church's semiannual general conference in Salt Lake City.
Deseret News reported it asPresident Christofferson adds his voice to President Oaks’ against gambling (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
The Trump administration considered building a baseball stadium in Grand Teton National Park after Major League Baseball inquired about hosting a game in a national park. Officials scouted locations, sparking debate about the use of protected federal lands.
Deseret News reported it asBaseball in Grand Teton National Park? Critics call the idea ‘ludicrous’ (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
The 2026 MTV Video Music Awards took place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, with Madonna and Taylor Swift emerging as the night's biggest winners. Madonna won seven awards, marking her return to the VMA stage after 23 years, while Swift secured the Video of the Year award.
Deseret News reported it asTaylor Swift’s first MTV VMA win was interrupted. Now she’s the most awarded artist in the show’s history (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, together with the State Board of Administration of Florida, filed a shareholder lawsuit in New York state court on 29 July 2026 accusing The New York Times of anti‑Israel bias in its Gaza war coverage. The Times says the suit has no merit.
Deseret News reported it asNew York Times sued by shareholders over coverage of Israel-Hamas war (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
Paramount Global and California's attorney general have discussed potential concessions as part of settlement talks. These discussions reportedly include a $1.5 billion investment in production within the state, as detailed by The Wall Street Journal.
Deseret News reported it asWhat Hollywood gets — and gives up — in the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
A former Utah postal worker has been indicted for allegedly discarding over 300 mail-in ballots found in a church parking lot dumpster. Federal officials are using the incident to underscore claims of voting fraud.
Deseret News reported it asUtah postal worker accused of throwing away 300 mail-in ballots in church parking lot (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
A Wall Street Journal report has led to criticism of Senator John Fetterman from former staffers and Democratic lawmakers. The report alleges Fetterman has shown little interest in his work, including constituent meetings and attending certain events.
Deseret News reported it asDemocrats criticize Sen. Fetterman as a ‘disgrace’ after report shows him avoiding responsibilities (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
The United States is in talks with Venezuela to acquire stakes in over a dozen oil fields. The agreement could significantly increase US strategic petroleum reserves, which have fallen to a 40-year low.
Deseret News reported it asWhat we know about Trump’s deal giving U.S. access to vast oil reserves in Venezuela (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
Iranian state media broadcast a video that allegedly suggests how to kill Barron Trump and offers a $10 million bounty for information. The Secret Service confirmed it is aware of the video and investigating the threats.
Deseret News reported it asSecret Service confirms it is aware of Iranian threat targeting Barron Trump (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are moving back to the United Kingdom after six years in the US, but will not resume their roles as working royals. Their children will attend British schools from September, and King Charles III was informed of the decision on 16 August 2026.
Deseret News reported it asPrince Harry and Meghan will move back to U.K. (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
Disney’s ABC filed a federal lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission on 18 August 2026, alleging the agency is retaliating against the network for its editorial decisions. The suit targets early licence-renewal orders for eight stations and an investigation into the talk show 'The View'.
Deseret News reported it asDisney’s ABC sues FCC, alleges Trump administration ‘waged a retaliatory campaign’ (opens Deseret News in a new tab)
President Donald Trump established the Presidential Commission on Military Spouses, appointing Jennifer Hegseth, wife of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, as its chair. The commission will address housing, employment and education challenges for military families and submit annual recommendations to the President.
Deseret News reported it asHow a Trump-appointed military spouse commission promises to ‘have the backs’ of the troops’ families (opens Deseret News 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
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day SaintsOtherdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Salt Lake City, Salt Lake County, Utah, United States
- Official site
- deseret.com
- Seen publishing on
- deseret.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
- 15
- Reports listed
- 15
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
14 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. Deseret News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 15 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Deseret News: its report arrived a median of 22 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 2 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 November 2026. Ratings pulled 8 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Deseret 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 Deseret 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.