Journal Sentinel media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Journal Sentinel one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Journal Sentinel biased?
The rating organisations do not give Journal Sentinel one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Journal Sentinel left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Journal Sentinel one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Journal Sentinel reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Journal Sentinel are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Journal Sentinel has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Journal Sentinel’s own report linked underneath.
Thousands of people protested outside the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts on Friday evening. The demonstration was against President Donald Trump's stated plans to close and potentially demolish the venue.
Journal Sentinel reported it asWhat the Kennedy Center looks like right now, amid demolition talk (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
An interview with Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, pulled from ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" due to FCC pressure, has garnered millions of views on YouTube. The move has sparked debate about censorship and the role of the FCC in broadcast content.
Journal Sentinel reported it asJimmy Kimmel releases James Talarico interview online amid FCC dispute (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
Apple has launched its first foldable smartphone, the iPhone Duo, at its 'Surprise and Shine' event. The company also introduced the iPhone 18 Pro and iPhone 18 Pro Max. This marks the first major product launch under new CEO John Ternus.
Journal Sentinel reported it asApple unveils new foldable iPhone Duo, plus iPhone 18 Pro models (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
Apple CEO John Ternus posted a cryptic video ahead of the company's expected iPhone 18 Pro unveiling. The video appears to hint at a new variable aperture camera feature for the device, which is set to be announced alongside new Apple Watch models.
Journal Sentinel reported it asApple unveils new foldable iPhone Duo, plus iPhone 18 Pro models (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
Michigan environmental regulators are reviewing permits for the Line 5 tunnel project following a state Supreme Court decision. Governor Gretchen Whitmer has also urged Enbridge CEO Gregory Ebel to shut down the pipeline within months.
Journal Sentinel reported it asWhitmer backtracks on Line 5 tunnel permits amid Great Lakes concerns (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
U.S. President Donald Trump stated the United States does not need Canada, while simultaneously imposing a 50% tariff on Canadian aluminum. Reports highlight the significant economic interdependence between the two nations, with Canada being the US's second-largest trading partner.
Journal Sentinel reported it asTiffany disagrees with Trump on renaming Lake Ontario (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
The US Department of Education issued guidance on 19 August 2026 directing schools to apply discipline policies without regard to race. The move ends policies that treated statistical disparities as civil rights violations and opens investigations into two school districts for alleged race-based discipline.
Journal Sentinel reported it asAfter changing standards, fed Ed Dept investigates MPS for discipline practices (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
Florida primary voters selected U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds as the Republican nominee for governor and former Rep. David Jolly as the Democratic nominee. Donalds, endorsed by Trump, defeated Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, while Jolly, a party-switcher, won the Democratic primary. They will compete in November to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Journal Sentinel reported it asByron Donalds wins GOP gubernatorial nomination (opens Journal Sentinel 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.
Journal Sentinel reported it asMichael Alfonso, son-in-law of Sean Duffy, wins congressional primary (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary between Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens has become a high-stakes battle over the party’s future, with El-Sayed backed by progressives and Stevens by the establishment. The winner will face Republican Mike Rogers in November.
Journal Sentinel reported it asElection results: El-Sayed, Stevens race too close to call in Michigan (opens Journal Sentinel in a new tab)
Francesca Hong, a Democratic socialist running for governor of Wisconsin, has walked back a 2021 social media post urging people to "cancel Thanksgiving" over its colonial history. In a recent interview, she called it her "favourite holiday" but did not directly answer whether she still believes it should be scrapped.
Journal Sentinel reported it asIn CNN interview, Hong doesn't back off 'cancel Thanksgiving' post (opens Journal Sentinel 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
- USA TODAY Co., Inc.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Milwaukee, Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, United States
- Official site
- jsonline.com
- Seen publishing on
- jsonline.com
- 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
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
11 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 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Journal Sentinel ran the story anyway.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Journal Sentinel: its report arrived a median of 21 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 21 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 21 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Journal Sentinel, 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 Journal Sentinel 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.