8 News Now media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place 8 News Now in the centre. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is 8 News Now biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place 8 News Now in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is 8 News Now left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place 8 News Now in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is 8 News Now reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for 8 News Now are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What 8 News Now has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with 8 News Now’s own report linked underneath.
Donald Trump has stated the United States can afford to send $5,000 to every adult American if Republicans retain control of Congress. He indicated the payments would be made after the election, and a White House budget official discussed the funding plan.
8 News Now reported it asTrump says $5K dividend checks to Americans will 'happen 100 percent' (opens 8 News Now in a new tab)
The Smithsonian's National Museum of American History is commemorating the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks with an exhibit of artifacts. The display includes personal items from the day, presented openly due to fragility, as museum leadership navigates political criticism.
8 News Now reported it asSept. 11 anniversary: Nation remembers 25 years later (opens 8 News Now in a new tab)
A federal appeals court has ruled that Nevada can regulate Kalshi's prediction markets, stating the company's sports event contracts are akin to sports bets and not federally regulated financial swaps. The decision is a win for states seeking to oversee such platforms.
8 News Now reported it asNinth Circuit rejects Kalshi's logic, sides with Nevada on regulation of sports betting (opens 8 News Now in a new tab)
Actress Hayden Panettiere, 36, was found dead in her Greenville, South Carolina apartment on 16 August 2026. Police and the coroner’s office reported no signs of foul play. Her father confirmed her death in a statement to ABC News, and tributes followed from co-stars and fans.
8 News Now reported it as‘Heroes,’ ‘Nashville’ star Hayden Panettiere dead at 36 (opens 8 News Now in a new tab)
Luis Alberto Osorio, an Elko resident, pleaded guilty to purchasing 140 firearms, including military-style rifles, for Mexican drug cartels. The case, part of a Homeland Security Task Force initiative, involves charges of trafficking, money laundering, and employing undocumented workers. Sentencing is scheduled for February.
8 News Now reported it asElko man pleads guilty to selling weapons to drug cartels, money laundering, harboring illegal aliens (opens 8 News Now in a new tab)
A Nevada judge dismissed charges against six Republicans accused of submitting a false electoral certificate in 2020, ruling prosecutors failed to prove intent to deceive. The case centred on whether the act was political protest or an attempt to overturn the election result.
8 News Now reported it asJudge drops Nevada case against electors accused of forging certificate in 2020 election (opens 8 News Now 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
- Nexstar Media GroupMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada, United States
- Official site
- 8newsnow.com
- Seen publishing on
- 8newsnow.com
- Access
- Free to read
- 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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
6 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. 8 News Now is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of 8 News Now: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 26 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as 8 News Now, 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 8 News Now 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.