Is KSBW biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KSBW in the centre. We have seen it on 9 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KSBW biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KSBW in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KSBW left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KSBW in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KSBW reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KSBW 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.
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
- Hearst TelevisionCorporationdirect owner
- Hearst CommunicationsMedia Conglomerateparent 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
- 9
- Reports listed
- 9
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
9 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. KSBW is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 9 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KSBW: its report arrived a median of 18 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 5 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 5 August 2026. Ratings pulled 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityRep. Chuck Edwards abandons reelection bid after ethics panel report released (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Chuck Edwards ends re-election bid after House Ethics Committee recommends censure
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityTrump says deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz could come as early as Wednesday (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Trump threatens Iran with military strikes if Strait of Hormuz stays closed
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityHow Michigan's Senate primary could shape the Democratic party's future (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Michigan Senate Primary Pits El-Sayed Against Stevens in Democratic Test
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityDivided federal appeals court says Trump administration was wrong to terminate climate funds (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: US appeals court rules Trump administration wrongly ended $20bn climate fund
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityWhat we’ve learned about COVID-19 since the pandemic (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Megyn Kelly calls Dana Bash 'out of her league' after RFK Jr interview
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityPresident Trump warns Iran of 'decapitation' and gives a 'last chance' for a deal (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Trump says US talks with Iran are Tehran’s ‘last chance before decapitation’
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityPresident Trump warns Iran of 'decapitation' and gives a 'last chance' for a deal (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: US reports progress in Hormuz shipping talks with Iran and Oman
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityTrump bank accounts were closed due to concerns over possible money laundering, Capital One says (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Trump sued Capital One after bank closed accounts over money-laundering fears
- KSBWCentreVery high factualityGOP holdouts say they will vote to advance Blanche's nomination for attorney general (opens KSBW in a new tab)
Our report: Senate panel to advance Todd Blanche nomination after Republican deal
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KSBW, 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.