Indy Star media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Indy Star in the centre. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Indy Star biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Indy Star in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Indy Star left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Indy Star in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Indy Star reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Indy Star are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Indy Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Indy Star’s own report linked underneath.
Three supporting acts have withdrawn from Ed Sheeran's tour following the removal of rapper Macklemore. Macklemore was dropped by tour promoters for pro-Palestinian comments made during a performance. The departing acts cited solidarity with Macklemore and opposition to perceived silencing of voices speaking out against Israeli actions.
Indy Star reported it asLucas Oil responds as artists exit Ed Sheeran tour after controversy (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
A 27-year-old British researcher, Jacob Coxon, has resigned from Anthropic and the AI industry, citing concerns over the rapid, irresponsible development of self-improving superintelligence. He fears this race poses a significant risk to humanity, with some reports suggesting an existential threat by the end of the decade.
Indy Star reported it asA researcher warned AI could end humanity. Congress is starting to freak out. (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
Jacob Coxon, a researcher formerly with OpenAI and Anthropic, has resigned, stating that leading AI developers are acting irresponsibly and "gambling with our lives." His departure has drawn comparisons to the Skynet scenario from the Terminator film.
Indy Star reported it asA researcher warned AI could end humanity. Congress is starting to freak out. (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
Jacob Coxon has resigned from AI company Anthropic, warning that the rapid development of artificial intelligence poses an existential threat to humanity. His departure and warnings have been reported across several outlets, highlighting concerns about AI safety and the race for superintelligence.
Indy Star reported it asA researcher warned AI could end humanity. Congress is starting to freak out. (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
An Anthropic researcher has warned of a greater than 10% chance of AI causing human extinction in the next ten years. The warning follows a colleague's resignation over concerns about reckless AI development.
Indy Star reported it asA researcher warned AI could end humanity. Congress is starting to freak out. (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
Enes Kanter Freedom was ejected from a WNBA game between the Indiana Fever and Chicago Sky after a confrontation with Sky guard Natasha Cloud. Freedom, who declared himself eligible for the WNBA draft identifying as a woman, was wearing a shirt with a definition of 'woman'.
Indy Star reported it asFormer NBA player was ejected from Fever-Sky game after player yells at Enes Kanter Freedom (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
Donald Trump told a conservative broadcaster he would not rule out declaring a national security emergency to enforce voter ID and proof-of-citizenship rules for federal elections. Legal experts say no president has the authority to change election laws unilaterally, but Trump has not dismissed the idea.
Indy Star reported it asTrump doesn't dismiss declaring national emergency to restrict voting (opens Indy Star in a new tab)
Michael Alfonso, son-in-law of former congressman Sean Duffy, secured the Republican nomination for Wisconsin’s 7th Congressional District on 11 August 2026. The 26-year-old political newcomer was backed by President Trump and will face the Democratic nominee in November.
Indy Star reported it asPrimary elections results for Wisconsin governor, legislative races (opens Indy Star 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- GannettMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana, United States
- Official site
- indystar.com
- Seen publishing on
- indystar.com
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
- 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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 7 August 2026
8 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. Indy Star is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Indy Star: its report arrived a median of 18 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 24 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 17 September 2026. Ratings pulled 10 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Indy Star, 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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Indy Star 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.