Is KPBS biased?
The bias data this site ingests places KPBS in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 2 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KPBS biased?
The bias data this site ingests places KPBS in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KPBS left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places KPBS in the centre. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KPBS reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes KPBS as very high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups KPBS on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for KPBS.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States
- Seen publishing on
- kpbs.org
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 1
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. KPBS is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KPBS: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- KPBSCentreVery high factualitySenate Democrats say banks turned blind eye to suspicious moves by Jeffrey Epstein (opens KPBS in a new tab)
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States
Our report: Senate report: Banks knew of Epstein transactions for years before reporting
- KPBSCentreVery high factualityIn the race for Senate in Michigan, multiple party fights are colliding for Democrats (opens KPBS in a new tab)
San Diego, San Diego County, California, United States
Our report: Michigan Senate Primary Pits El-Sayed Against Stevens in Democratic Test
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KPBS, 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.
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.