iHeart RADIO media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give iHeart RADIO one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is iHeart RADIO biased?
The rating organisations do not give iHeart RADIO one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is iHeart RADIO left or right?
The rating organisations do not give iHeart RADIO one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is iHeart RADIO reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for iHeart RADIO are Ad Fontes Media: Mixed factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What iHeart RADIO has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with iHeart RADIO’s own report linked underneath.
Secretary of State Marco Rubio defended President Donald Trump's decision to ban CNN, MS NOW, and POLITICO from the White House. The outlets have filed a federal lawsuit, arguing the ban violates their First and Fifth Amendment rights.
iHeart RADIO reported it asDOJ Says Trump Can Shut Out Reporters From WH | News Radio 103.1 and 810 WGY (opens iHeart RADIO 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.
Mixed factuality
- Ad Fontes MediamixedCheck it
Who owns it
- IHeartMediaunknowndirect owner
- Thomas H. Lee PartnersPrivate Equityparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- iheart.com
- Seen publishing on
- iheart.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 23 September 2026
We have not seen iHeart RADIO 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 iHeart RADIO: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 23 September 2026. Ratings pulled 23 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as iHeart RADIO, 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 iHeart RADIO 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.