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iNews media bias and reliability

The rating organisations do not give iNews 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 53 published stories of ours.

CentreHigh factuality

The short answers

Is iNews biased?

The rating organisations do not give iNews 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 iNews left or right?

The rating organisations do not give iNews 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 iNews reliable?

The factual-reliability assessments we hold for iNews 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 iNews has been covering

Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with iNews’s own report linked underneath.

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.

High factuality

Who owns it

  • DMG MediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
  • Daily Mail and General TrustMedia Conglomerateparent group
  • Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
  • Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
  • Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
  • Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
  • Alfred Harmsworth (barrister)Independentparent group
  • Geraldine Mary HarmsworthIndependentparent group
  • Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess RothermereBillionaireparent group

Where it publishes from

Publishes from
London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Official site
inews.co.uk
Seen publishing on
inews.co.uk
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
53
Reports listed
53
We could read
0
First seen
4 August 2026

53 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. iNews is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.

Across the 53 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of iNews: its report arrived a median of 22 hours after the earliest one we logged.

Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 6 September 2026.

Other outlets rated the same way

Publishers carrying the same published leaning as iNews, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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 iNews 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.

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