Is Durango Herald biased?
The rating organisations do not give Durango Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Durango Herald biased?
The rating organisations do not give Durango Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are 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 Durango Herald left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Durango Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Durango Herald reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Durango Herald 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.
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.
High factuality
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Durango Herald.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States
- Official site
- durangoherald.com
- Seen publishing on
- durangoherald.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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
7 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.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Durango Herald ran the story anyway.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Durango Herald: its report arrived a median of 13 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityStevens and El-Sayed are in a close race for Michigan's Democratic Senate nomination (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Our report: Michigan Senate Primary Pits El-Sayed Against Stevens in Democratic Test
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityGene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Our report: CRISPR-edited beagles born without key allergy protein
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityGene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Our report: CRISPR-edited beagles lack main dog allergen, study finds
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityTrump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Our report: Trump threatens Iran with military strikes if Strait of Hormuz stays closed
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityFACT FOCUS: No, you won't need an ID to shop at city-owned grocery stores in New York City (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Our report: New York mayor rejects conservative claim grocery stores prove need for voter ID
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityDivided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Our report: US appeals court rules Trump administration wrongly ended $20bn climate fund
- Durango HeraldLeans leftHigh factualityBoard of Peace envoy meets with Netanyahu on Gaza disarmament deal, urges halt to strikes (opens Durango Herald in a new tab)
Albuquerque, Bernalillo County, New Mexico, United States
Our report: Mladenov and Netanyahu discuss Gaza disarmament plan with Hamas
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Durango Herald, 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.
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.