Is Herald-Banner biased?
The rating organisations do not give Herald-Banner one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Herald-Banner biased?
The rating organisations do not give Herald-Banner one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; 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 Herald-Banner left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Herald-Banner one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Herald-Banner reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Herald-Banner 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 Herald-Banner has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Herald-Banner’s own report linked underneath.
The US Department of Health and Human Services will pay Burke Law Group up to $150 million to provide legal services for unaccompanied migrant children. The firm has no immigration lawyers and was founded by former Trump administration officials. Advocacy groups allege the contract is linked to demands for confidential client data.
Herald-Banner reported it asA $150M contract for migrant kids’ lawyers goes to a Trump-linked Texas firm, raising concerns (opens Herald-Banner in a new tab)
A federal judge in Texas ruled that the National Firearms Act no longer applies to suppressors, short-barreled rifles and shotguns after Congress eliminated their transfer and making taxes in July 2025. The decision blocks the ATF from enforcing registration requirements for those firearms, with a seven-day stay to allow an appeal.
Herald-Banner reported it asTexas judge rules that law regulating firearm suppressors and some guns can't be enforced (opens Herald-Banner in a new tab)
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing on COVID-19 origins. The resolution, opposed by all Democrats, was sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
Herald-Banner reported it asSenate committee votes to hold Fauci in contempt for refusing to answer COVID questions (opens Herald-Banner in a new tab)
Stacker compiled rankings of the hottest Augusts in Missouri and six other U.S. states using federal climate data. The 1936 August in Missouri averaged 83.9°F, the highest since records began in 1895. Outlets across the political spectrum published the findings, with varying emphasis on climate trends.
Herald-Banner reported it asHottest Augusts in Texas since 1895 (opens Herald-Banner in a new tab)
The Trump administration has ordered construction crews to stop drilling wells for the border wall in New Mexico after ranchers warned that groundwater extraction threatened their livestock. Eight wells were drilled without state permits, and federal agencies will now collaborate on a groundwater strategy.
Herald-Banner reported it asContractors building border wall ordered to stop drilling wells in drought-stricken New Mexico (opens Herald-Banner in a new tab)
Somos Votantes, a left-leaning group, is investing $6 million to organise Latino voters in Texas, aiming to reverse a trend of declining Democratic support. The campaign includes voter education and a targeted advertising push in South Texas.
Herald-Banner reported it asIn Texas, a political group bets $6 million on Latino voters coming back to Democrats (opens Herald-Banner in a new tab)
A federal judge in Washington permitted the US Department of Homeland Security to continue building a border wall section using levees near Presidio, Texas. The decision overrides local objections that the construction could cause flooding and violate environmental laws.
Herald-Banner reported it asA federal judge lets DHS proceed with a border wall through a small Texas town’s levee system (opens Herald-Banner 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
We hold no ownership record for Herald-Banner.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Austin, Travis County, Texas, United States
- Official site
- heraldbanner.com
- Seen publishing on
- heraldbanner.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
- 5 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Herald-Banner is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Herald-Banner: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Herald-Banner, 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 Herald-Banner 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.
Report something wrong on this page
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.