Gothamist media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Gothamist one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Gothamist biased?
The rating organisations do not give Gothamist one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Gothamist left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Gothamist one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Gothamist reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Gothamist 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 Gothamist has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Gothamist’s own report linked underneath.
Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil has filed a lawsuit against Columbia University, alleging the institution failed to protect him and other pro-Palestinian students from harassment and retaliated against them. The suit claims the university's actions led to doxing and Khalil's detention by immigration agents.
Gothamist reported it asMahmoud Khalil sues Columbia over alleged treatment of pro-Palestinian activists (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and a coalition of Democratic-led cities and states have filed a lawsuit challenging a new Trump administration rule. The rule would allow immigration officials to deny green cards and visas to immigrants who use public benefits.
Gothamist reported it asNY officials join with others looking to block another Trump blow to immigrants (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
Gothamist reported it asFamilies gather at ground zero to remember 9/11 — 25 years later (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
Police shot and killed a man on the Brooklyn Bridge early Friday after he climbed the cables, brandished a knife, and moved towards officers. The man had claimed he had a bomb and wanted to die.
Gothamist reported it as’I want to die': NYPD says it shot, killed knife-wielding man on Brooklyn Bridge cables (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
A federal judge has blocked New York's law requiring fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years for climate change damages. The judge found the state law conflicted with federal authority, particularly the Clean Air Act.
Gothamist reported it asNY's climate superfund law has been struck down. Is NJ's bill now in trouble? (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
New York's new law prohibits local police from cooperating with ICE on civil immigration enforcement, with exceptions for proven crimes. However, some counties are challenging the law with a lawsuit, and a federal grant program is reportedly funding border security assistance.
Gothamist reported it asThe New York county leaders vowing to fight law limiting police cooperation with ICE (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
Benjamin Netanyahu posted a Likud campaign billboard showing New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Hezbollah Secretary-General Naim Qassem. The slogan reads: 'They want Netanyahu to lose. Do not let them win.'
Gothamist reported it asIsraeli billboard of Mamdani and ayatollah comes as NYC rabbis plead for cooler heads (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
A coalition of Second Amendment organisations has sued New York over its prohibition of Glock-style handguns, arguing the measure breaches constitutional protections. The case joins a series of legal challenges to state gun-control statutes across the US.
Gothamist reported it asGun groups sue over NY law that they argue effectively bans a popular Glock (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
Jose Chajon-Raxon, a Guatemalan man, had a seizure one day after being processed into Delaney Hall, a New Jersey ICE detention facility. DHS said it was not notified of his death and did not disclose it, citing a recent policy change that ended 30-day death reporting for released detainees.
Gothamist reported it asFeds confirms recent death of Delaney Hall detainee released shortly after intake (opens Gothamist in a new tab)
US Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez said on ABC’s “This Week” that the first wave of progressive rhetoric, which she labelled “Woke 1”, was “crazy”. She made the remark while discussing Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong, who has faced criticism for past social media posts calling to abolish prisons and cancel Thanksgiving.
Gothamist reported it asIs 'woke' a joke? AOC sparks debate among NYC progressives about liberal excess. (opens Gothamist 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- New York Public RadioOtherdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- New York, New York, United States
- Official site
- gothamist.com
- Seen publishing on
- gothamist.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
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 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.
On 6 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Gothamist ran the story anyway.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Gothamist: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Gothamist, 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?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Gothamist 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.