Is KUOW biased?
The rating organisations do not give KUOW one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is KUOW biased?
The rating organisations do not give KUOW one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is KUOW left or right?
The rating organisations do not give KUOW one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is KUOW reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for KUOW are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What KUOW has been covering
None yet. This fills in as KUOW appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.
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
- University of WashingtonOtherdirect owner
Where it publishes from
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story KUOW appeared on. It has a page here because it turned up in the coverage of a story we were reading, which happens well before we have written anything it is part of. Measured 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as KUOW, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where KUOW 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.