Is Leader-Telegram biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Leader-Telegram in the centre. We have seen it on 6 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Leader-Telegram biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Leader-Telegram in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Leader-Telegram left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Leader-Telegram in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Leader-Telegram reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Leader-Telegram are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Leader-Telegram has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Leader-Telegram’s own report linked underneath.
Serbia's football association withdrew support for FIFA President Gianni Infantino's re-election bid, joining European opposition after FIFA's failed $4.2 billion tournament stake sale. The reversal came 70 days after Serbia initially backed Infantino, with the association calling for new leadership to restore trust in global football governance.
Leader-Telegram reported it asEuropean soccer leagues add to pressure on FIFA president Gianni Infantino amid 'crisis' meeting (opens Leader-Telegram in a new tab)
Scientists used CRISPR to edit a gene in beagles, producing two dogs whose saliva and hair no longer contain the main allergy-causing protein. The beagles were born in September 2024 and tested on a researcher with dog allergies, who showed no reaction to their samples.
Leader-Telegram reported it asGene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies (opens Leader-Telegram in a new tab)
Researchers used CRISPR to edit a gene in beagles, producing two puppies without the main allergy-causing protein. The study, published in the CRISPR Journal, found the dogs' saliva and fur lacked the protein, and a scientist with severe allergies showed no reaction. Ethical concerns about shelter adoptions were raised.
Leader-Telegram reported it asGene-edited beagles may offer a future option for people with dog allergies (opens Leader-Telegram in a new tab)
After the US ended Temporary Protected Status for Haitians, a Maryland church saw Sunday service attendance fall by over half. ICE is fitting TPS holders with ankle monitors and detaining them, while local businesses and families face disruption. The Supreme Court ruled in June that the termination could proceed.
Leader-Telegram reported it asEmpty pews and fear of ICE on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after TPS ends for Haitians (opens Leader-Telegram in a new tab)
The Word of Life Center in Salisbury, Maryland, saw Sunday service attendance drop by more than half after Temporary Protected Status for Haitians ended. Roughly 350,000 Haitians in the U.S. lost work permits, and ICE has called some in for ankle monitors and travel restrictions.
Leader-Telegram reported it asEmpty pews and fear of ICE on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after TPS ends for Haitians (opens Leader-Telegram in a new tab)
An Associated Press investigation found more than 50 parents and spouses of active-duty U.S. troops have been detained since President Trump began his second term, with at least six deported. The Department of Homeland Security does not track these cases, and the Pentagon declined to comment.
Leader-Telegram reported it asTrump administration has detained more than 50 spouses, parents of US troops in immigration crackdown, AP review finds (opens Leader-Telegram 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
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Leader-Telegram.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- leadertelegram.com
- Seen publishing on
- leadertelegram.com
- 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
- 6
- Reports listed
- 6
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
6 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. Leader-Telegram is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 6 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Leader-Telegram: its report arrived a median of 19 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 8 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 8 August 2026. Ratings pulled 8 August 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Leader-Telegram, 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.