Herald Sun media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Herald Sun as leaning right. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Herald Sun biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Herald Sun as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Herald Sun left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Herald Sun as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is Herald Sun reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Herald Sun are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Herald Sun has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Herald Sun’s own report linked underneath.
Explosions were reported near Iran's Kharg Island and the port city of Jask. A US official confirmed strikes on Iranian oil tankers, while Iran's military warned of retaliation if its vessels are attacked. Oil prices rose following the news.
Herald Sun reported it asUS forces destroy Iranian oil tankers; Twin sisters’ torture ordeal revealed (opens Herald Sun in a new tab)
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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- News Corp Australiaunknowndirect owner
- News CorpMedia Conglomerateparent group
- Murdoch familyMedia Conglomerateparent group
- The Herald and Weekly TimesCorporationdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Southbank, Victoria, Australia
- Official site
- heraldsun.com.au
- Seen publishing on
- heraldsun.com.au
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 9 September 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 Herald Sun cover a story that outlets rated right 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 Herald Sun: its report arrived a median of 4 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 9 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 September 2026. Ratings pulled 9 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Herald Sun, also publishing from Australia, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Herald Sun 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.