Is ESPN biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place ESPN as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- ABC Inc.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
- The Walt Disney CompanyMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
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
- 4 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 ESPN 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, another outlet was always ahead of ESPN: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- ESPNLeans leftHigh factualitySources: UEFA threatens Infantino with legal action (opens ESPN in a new tab)
United States
Our report: UEFA threatens legal action over Infantino's $4.2bn World Cup profit sale plan
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.