il Giornale media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place il Giornale as leaning right. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is il Giornale biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place il Giornale as leaning right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is il Giornale left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place il Giornale as leaning right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is il Giornale reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for il Giornale are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What il Giornale has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with il Giornale’s own report linked underneath.
President Donald Trump has threatened to cut federal funding to New York City after Little Italy was omitted from a city map of ethnic communities. Trump called the omission an 'unthinkable disgrace' during a Columbus Day celebration.
il Giornale reported it asTrump in Defense of Little Italy: If Cancelled, I Cut the Funds in New York (opens il Giornale in a new tab)
The Public Prosecutor's Office in Palermo has requested the arrest of Gaetano Armao, former vice-president of the Sicilian Region, on corruption charges. Searches were conducted at his homes and offices in Palermo and Rome, with eight other individuals also facing potential measures.
il Giornale reported it asThe Arrest of the Former Vice-President of the Region of Sicily Gaetano Armao: the Crime of Corruption Is Hypothesized (opens il Giornale in a new tab)
Socar, the Azerbaijani energy company that owns Italiana Petroli (IP), will progressively cap fuel prices on its Italian network starting September 28. This follows a similar move by Eni, which set caps of €2.19/litre for diesel and €1.99 for gasoline.
il Giornale reported it asFuels, Self Petrol on the Motorway Under 2.20 Euros. Q8 Also Accepts the Roof at the Prices for 30 Days (opens il Giornale in a new tab)
Italian energy company Eni has announced a price cap for petrol and diesel, setting a maximum of €1.99 per litre for petrol and €2.19 per litre for diesel. The measure, intended as a 'contribution of solidarity', will be in effect for 30 days from September 28, 2026, with a possibility of extension.
il Giornale reported it asFuels, Self Petrol on the Motorway Under 2.20 Euros. Q8 Also Accepts the Roof at the Prices for 30 Days (opens il Giornale in a new tab)
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced that the government will introduce a maximum number of foreign students per class. She also stated that parents of foreign students with integration issues will be required to learn Italian and that burqa and niqab will be banned in schools.
il Giornale reported it asThe Arab Analyst Defends Meloni on the Veil and Nails the Left: "More Muslim than Muslims" (opens il Giornale in a new tab)
Italian state broadcaster RAI has removed Sigfrido Ranucci as presenter of its flagship investigative programme 'Report'. The move has ignited a political debate, with opposition parties calling it an attack on press freedom and government allies approving the decision.
il Giornale reported it asRanucci Is the Victim: "They Want to Send Me to Cairo to End up as Regens. And He Attacks His Successors: "Edit the Professionalism of Report" (opens il Giornale in a new tab)
A Catholic archbishop in Spain publicly criticised mass migration as a tool for political gain after thousands of people attempted to cross into the Spanish city of Ceuta from Morocco. Right-rated outlets reported the statement, while no left- or centre-rated outlets covered the story.
il Giornale reported it asCeuta, the Data on Returns that Do Not Return: that Is Who Denies the Sanchez Government (opens il Giornale 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
Who owns it
- Silvio BerlusconiBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Italy
- Official site
- ilgiornale.it
- Seen publishing on
- ilgiornale.it
- 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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 6 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.
On 2 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and il Giornale ran the story anyway.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of il Giornale: its report arrived a median of 28 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 10 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 10 October 2026. Ratings pulled 9 October 2026.
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