Is kcur.org biased?
The rating organisations do not give kcur.org one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is kcur.org biased?
The rating organisations do not give kcur.org one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are 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 kcur.org left or right?
The rating organisations do not give kcur.org one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is kcur.org reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for kcur.org are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What kcur.org has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with kcur.org’s own report linked underneath.
Kansas voters rejected a constitutional amendment that would have shifted the selection of state Supreme Court justices from gubernatorial appointment to direct election. The current process, involving a nominating commission and the governor, remains unchanged after the 5 August 2026 primary.
kcur.org reported it asKansas voters reject electing state Supreme Court justices as constitutional amendment fails (opens kcur.org in a new tab)
Missouri’s top election official has rejected a citizens’ petition to hold a statewide referendum on new congressional districts endorsed by Donald Trump. Supporters had gathered over 300,000 signatures, but Hoskins ruled the effort unconstitutional. The decision is being challenged in court.
kcur.org reported it asHoskins rejects Missouri congressional redistricting map referendum, setting up court fight (opens kcur.org 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- University of Missouri-Kansas CityOtherdirect owner
- University of Missouri SystemOtherparent group
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
- 2
- Reports listed
- 2
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
2 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.
We have not seen kcur.org cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of kcur.org: its report arrived a median of 2 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as kcur.org, 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?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where kcur.org 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.