ITV media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give ITV one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. We have seen it on 22 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is ITV biased?
The rating organisations do not give ITV one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is ITV left or right?
The rating organisations do not give ITV one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans right. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Right.
Is ITV reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for ITV are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What ITV has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with ITV’s own report linked underneath.
Irish President Catherine Connolly has stated that Donald Trump inquired about her belief in Ireland's unification within her lifetime. She also confirmed they discussed genocide and the normalisation of war, while defending her sister's right to protest his visit.
ITV reported it asUnited Ireland in your lifetime? What Trump asked President Connolly (opens ITV in a new tab)
A Russian drone struck a train near the Ukrainian-Polish border. Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson and other European officials had travelled on a train that passed through the area shortly before the attack, according to reports. Poland's Prime Minister warned of intensified Russian attacks.
ITV reported it asRussian drone hits train near Ukraine border shortly after Boris Johnson left (opens ITV in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump's visit to Ireland on September 12 and 13 will be supported by a large-scale security and policing operation. An Garda Síochána has declared the event extraordinary to manage staffing and resources for the extensive plan.
ITV reported it asTrump visit involves ‘one of biggest’ policing operations in Ireland (opens ITV in a new tab)
A 31-year-old British man, Joshua Cammidge, has been charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service and preparing an act of sabotage. He allegedly researched drone manufacturing sites in Swindon and communicated with an individual believed to be linked to Russia's GRU Volunteer Corps.
ITV reported it asMan prepared to sabotage Swindon drone factory on behalf of Russia ... (opens ITV in a new tab)
Russia resumed drone and missile attacks on Ukraine, including the capital Kyiv, after a three-day pause. The strikes killed at least four people and injured 83 across the country, according to Ukrainian officials.
ITV reported it asUK commits £100m to Ukraine as renewed Russian strikes on Kyiv kill two (opens ITV in a new tab)
Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate said its Active Operations Department struck a Russian Su‑24 in temporarily occupied Crimea on the night of 7 September. Video shows tail number 49; the extent of damage is still being evaluated.
ITV reported it asUK commits £100m to Ukraine as renewed Russian strikes on Kyiv kill two (opens ITV in a new tab)
British Prime Minister Andy Burnham and US President Donald Trump have agreed on the need to continue working towards a ceasefire in Ukraine. The leaders spoke by phone on Monday, with Downing Street stating the UK's support for Ukraine and recent US-led peace negotiations was reiterated.
ITV reported it asBurnham and Trump 'agree to work towards ceasefire' in ... (opens ITV in a new tab)
Chancellor John Healey is set to announce a £150 million fund aimed at supporting fast-growing firms in the North of England. The initiative, drawn from the British Business Bank's existing budget, is intended to foster economic growth and support ambitious businesses, including university spin-outs.
ITV reported it asJohn Healey unveils £150m fund for northern firms in push for growth (opens ITV in a new tab)
A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for a record 271 days, allowing the individual to avoid dialysis while awaiting a human transplant. The results were published in The Lancet by doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
ITV reported it asMan survives with modified pig kidney for nine months in world first (opens ITV in a new tab)
London Mayor Sadiq Khan's emails and text messages will be searched as part of a legal battle with Palantir over a blocked £50 million deal for artificial intelligence technology with the Metropolitan Police. A full court hearing is scheduled for January.
ITV reported it asSadiq Khan's emails to be searched in Palantir legal battle over Met deal (opens ITV in a new tab)
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
ITV reported it asBritish tourists among hundreds missing in fatal flash floods in Nepal (opens ITV in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
ITV reported it asBritish tourists among hundreds missing in fatal flash floods in Nepal (opens ITV in a new tab)
UK Prime Minister Andy Burnham plans to travel to the US in September to lobby President Donald Trump for additional Patriot air defence interceptor missiles for Ukraine. The visit aims to secure supplies ahead of winter, as Russia intensifies missile strikes.
ITV reported it asBurnham ‘likely’ to visit US in September to lobby for Ukraine defence support (opens ITV in a new tab)
Canada will impose retaliatory tariffs on the United States starting September 8, Prime Minister Mark Carney announced. The decision follows the collapse of trade talks, which British Columbia Premier David Eby described as revealing the "true nature" of American objectives.
ITV reported it asTrump claims Canada wants 'US state benefits' as trade war deepens (opens ITV in a new tab)
Donald Trump stated that Canada has been imposing high tariffs on US farmers for years and that this practice will cease. In response, Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney announced retaliatory tariffs on US products, set to take effect on September 8.
ITV reported it asPolice name five killed in vehicle that hit police car in wrong-way crash (opens ITV in a new tab)
Canada and the U.S. delayed new tariffs by three days as negotiations continue. Provinces agreed to return U.S. alcohol to shelves, except Manitoba, where Premier Wab Kinew urged Canadians to boycott it. Alberta and Saskatchewan already restocked.
ITV reported it asCommuter belt house price hot and cold spots revealed by Rightmove (opens ITV in a new tab)
Ethel Caterham, the world's oldest person, celebrated her 117th birthday on Friday, August 21. Born in 1909, she has lived through two World Wars and survived Covid-19. She met King Charles III in September 2025.
ITV reported it asWorld’s oldest person celebrates 'lovely' 117th birthday after year she met King (opens ITV in a new tab)
A wildfire in Belgium’s High Fens nature reserve burned over 27 square kilometres on 15 August 2026, forcing 600 residents to evacuate. Over 250 emergency personnel, including firefighters from Belgium and Germany, were deployed, with EU assistance from Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.
ITV reported it asFirefighters battle massive Belgian wildfire as hundreds evacuated (opens ITV in a new tab)
Israeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon killed nine people, including three children, on 15 August 2026, in attacks Lebanon’s Prime Minister said targeted civilians. Israel stated the strikes were in response to Hezbollah actions, amid a fragile truce since June.
ITV reported it asIsraeli airstrikes on southern Lebanon kill 11 people ... (opens ITV in a new tab)
Western Europe faced its fifth heatwave of the summer on 13 August 2026, with temperatures reaching 38.1°C in the UK and 38°C in France. The June-July average broke records, and 135 million people were exposed to extreme heat, expected to ease by the weekend.
ITV reported it asUK records hottest day of the year as temperature tops 38C (opens ITV 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
- ITV plcMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 22
- Reports listed
- 22
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
22 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 8 of those stories, outlets rated right were largely absent from the coverage and ITV ran the story anyway.
Across the 22 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than ITV’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 16 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 19 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 19 September 2026. Ratings pulled 4 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as ITV, 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.
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