Her Campus media bias and reliability
Her Campus is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Her Campus biased?
Her Campus is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Her Campus left or right?
Her Campus is held by the ratings provider we draw on, and no rater has placed it on the political spectrum.
Is Her Campus reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for Her Campus. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What Her Campus has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Her Campus’s own report linked underneath.
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
Her Campus reported it asThe Reactions To Apple's iPhone Duo Are So Split (opens Her Campus in a new tab)
Brazilian President Lula da Silva spoke by phone with US President Donald Trump for 80 minutes on August 21, 2026. Lula argued that US justifications for imposing tariffs on Brazilian goods were unfounded. The leaders agreed on the need to maintain strong commercial ties and proposed resuming bilateral meetings.
Her Campus reported it asUnderstand Trump's tariffs and how it affects Brazil in this election year (opens Her Campus in a new tab)
Who says so
No rating organisation we draw on has placed Her Campus. We asked on 22 August 2026.
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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Her Campus.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- hercampus.com
- Seen publishing on
- hercampus.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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 22 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. Her Campus has not been placed on the spectrum, so there is no side to count 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 Her Campus: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 September 2026. Ratings pulled 22 August 2026.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Her Campus 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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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.