KPNX media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KPNX in the centre. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KPNX biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KPNX in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KPNX left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KPNX in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KPNX reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KPNX 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 KPNX has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KPNX’s own report linked underneath.
Record-high diesel prices have prompted Republican Senator Chuck Grassley to call for an embargo on exports. Farm state Republicans are pressuring the White House to stop exports, citing the impact on farmers and truckers.
KPNX reported it asRising fuel costs push up travel costs as diesel hits record high (opens KPNX in a new tab)
A newly unveiled statue of Charlie Kirk at Turning Point USA's Phoenix headquarters was defaced with red paint. The vandalism occurred days after the statue's unveiling and coincided with the one-year anniversary of Kirk's assassination.
KPNX reported it asCharlie Kirk statue vandalized days after unveiling in Phoenix (opens KPNX in a new tab)
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow rejected Maricopa County's request to end federal supervision of the sheriff's office. The judge cited a plaintiffs' expert who found a 4.7-minute longer average stop for Hispanic drivers compared to white drivers.
KPNX reported it asMaricopa County Sheriff's Office remains under federal oversight in Melendres case after judge rejects bid to end monitoring (opens KPNX in a new tab)
Images circulating on social media appeared to show Democratic state Rep. Lorena Austin supporting Republican gubernatorial candidate Andy Biggs. Austin stated the images were deepfakes, and AI-detection systems indicated they were digitally altered. The images were shared by individuals identified as Turning Point Action managers.
KPNX reported it asArizona lawmaker threatens lawsuit over deepfake image on social media post (opens KPNX in a new tab)
Police in Tucson, Arizona, are investigating a shooting outside a gay bar as a possible hate crime. Three people, including the shooter, died in the incident. The suspect was found with a note listing LGBTQIA+-associated businesses.
KPNX reported it asNote left behind by suspect in shooting outside Tucson gay bar indicates a 'targeted attack,' police say (opens KPNX in a new tab)
The Trump administration has begun building a border wall project on land belonging to the Tohono O'odham Nation in southern Arizona. The tribe alleges federal agents and contractors trespassed on its land, damaging sacred sites, while U.S. Customs and Border Protection states the area is a dangerous smuggling route.
KPNX reported it asTrump administration starts building border wall project in Arizona over tribe's objections (opens KPNX in a new tab)
The U.S. Department of Justice has filed lawsuits against Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon, and Washington. The department alleges that state laws offering in-state tuition and financial aid to undocumented students discriminate against U.S. citizens and violate federal law.
KPNX reported it asArizona sued by DOJ over in-state tuition for immigrant students (opens KPNX in a new tab)
Polygamous sect leader Samuel Bateman is set for sentencing on state child abuse convictions. He is already serving a 50-year federal sentence for orchestrating sex involving children and faces additional time based on the state charges.
KPNX reported it asSamuel Bateman given more prison time after girls were found in cargo trailer during Arizona traffic stop (opens KPNX 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
Who owns it
- Tegna Inc.Media Conglomeratedirect owner
- Tegna IncMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
- Official site
- 12news.com
- Seen publishing on
- 12news.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 17 August 2026
8 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. KPNX is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KPNX: its report arrived a median of 26 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 1 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 27 September 2026. Ratings pulled 16 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KPNX, 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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