KSTP News media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KSTP News in the centre. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is KSTP News biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KSTP News in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KSTP News left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place KSTP News in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KSTP News reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KSTP News are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What KSTP News has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with KSTP News’s own report linked underneath.
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
KSTP News reported it asDOJ charges ICE agent with lying about Minneapolis shooting (opens KSTP News in a new tab)
A federal judge has refused to order Texas to extradite ICE officer Christian Castro to Minnesota, where he faces assault and false reporting charges. Castro is accused of shooting a man in the leg through a home's front door.
KSTP News reported it asJudge denies Minnesota's request to force extradition of ICE agent from Texas (opens KSTP News in a new tab)
Elon Musk posted on X that Derek Chauvin was 'unjustly convicted of murder' and should be freed, aligning with Chauvin's third legal attempt to overturn his 2021 conviction. Chauvin's attorneys allege procedural errors, including Governor Tim Walz's transfer of prosecutorial oversight to state officials.
KSTP News reported it asDerek Chauvin asks Minnesota to overturn George Floyd murder conviction (opens KSTP News in a new tab)
Blaine council member's car vandalised with middle-finger photos ahead of Minnesota House bid
Trust 62A Blaine City Council member and Republican candidate for the Minnesota House of Representatives found her car covered in middle-finger photos on Saturday morning. Security footage shows at least four people involved, but police have not determined if the vandalism was politically motivated.
KSTP News reported it as'Unacceptable': Lawmakers speak out after video captures vandals tampering with candidate's car (opens KSTP News in a new tab)
A federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for Somali immigrants, affecting roughly 1,100 people. The decision follows a Supreme Court ruling that narrowed courts' ability to review TPS terminations, and is part of a broader effort to roll back protections for multiple countries.
KSTP News reported it asJudge lifts block on ending Somali Temporary Protected Status in US (opens KSTP News in a new tab)
Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor and former Bush adviser, is the early frontrunner to replace outgoing White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, though multiple sources say the selection process remains open. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles met Jennings at a Washington steakhouse, but other names, including Natalie Harp, are also under consideration.
KSTP News reported it asWhite House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, youngest person to hold role, to leave at month's end (opens KSTP News in a new tab)
A 24-year-old gunman opened fire at an In-N-Out Burger in Twin Falls, Idaho, killing three people before dying by suicide. The victims were named after a community vigil, while no right-rated outlet reported the incident.
KSTP News reported it asNew video shows gunman shooting victims at Idaho In-N-Out Burger drive-thru (opens KSTP News 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.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Hubbard BroadcastingMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 8 August 2026
7 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. KSTP News is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of KSTP News: its report arrived a median of 23 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 25 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 9 September 2026. Ratings pulled 10 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KSTP News, 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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