Lincoln Journal Star media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Lincoln Journal Star in the centre. We have seen it on 67 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Lincoln Journal Star biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Lincoln Journal Star in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Lincoln Journal Star left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Lincoln Journal Star in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Lincoln Journal Star reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Lincoln Journal Star are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Lincoln Journal Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Lincoln Journal Star’s own report linked underneath.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asMichigan endorsement roils Senate race (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Mohamed Soliman pleaded guilty to nine federal hate-crime counts and three federal weapon charges for a June 2025 firebomb attack in Boulder, Colorado. He is already serving a life sentence for state convictions related to the same attack, which killed one demonstrator and injured about a dozen others.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asMan pleads guilty to hate crimes in bombing (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Asian stock markets saw a significant rise following Anthropic's initial public offering filing, which disclosed strong revenue growth alongside substantial losses. Meta Platforms' large equity fundraising also contributed to the positive sentiment.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asAnthropic moves closer to going public (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
A major security vulnerability discovered in the PHP programming language has led to widespread alerts and the precautionary shutdown of numerous websites globally. Developers are releasing patches to address the flaws.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asWebsites go dark due to programming flaw (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Houthi rebels attacked a military training camp in Yemen's Shabwa province with ballistic missiles, killing at least 53 members of the internal security forces and wounding approximately 200. The attack occurs amid a surge in fighting in the country.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asHouthi attack kills 53 at training, officials say (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a federal ban on distilling spirits in private homes, a law dating back to 1868. Conflicting lower court rulings have led to the case reaching the high court.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asCourt to review ban on home liquor stills (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca is teaming up with technology firm Oracle to leverage artificial intelligence and real-world data. The partnership seeks to enhance clinical research by improving patient recruitment for trials and monitoring safety signals, with initial efforts focused on several key disease areas.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asOracle and AstraZeneca Partner to Advance AI-enabled Healthcare Innovation (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
An international study projects that annual new dementia diagnoses will more than double by 2050, reaching an estimated 24.7 million cases. The research also found that women and individuals in low- and middle-income countries are disproportionately affected.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asDementia cases to double by 2050. Here's why (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Ukraine has resumed attacks on Russian oil refineries, with President Volodymyr Zelensky declaring an end to an energy truce. The move follows a unilateral ceasefire proposal by former US President Donald Trump, which was not confirmed by Russia or Ukraine.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asUkraine resumes strikes on refineries (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, has stated she is a lawyer. An investigation found no record of her being licensed to practice law in any US state or Washington D.C. She told reporters she passed the bar exam when she moved to China.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asWhite House press secretary Katie Zacharia draws scrutiny (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Hassan Kariem, a teacher at Wesley International Academy, died after falling from the Goliath roller coaster at Six Flags Over Georgia. Police stated he was ejected from the ride and struck other patrons before falling. Six Flags temporarily closed nine similar roller coasters.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asSix Flags closes multiple roller coasters similar to one linked to Georgia park death (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
A planet described as a gas giant has been discovered orbiting a white dwarf star approximately 250 light-years away. This 'second-generation' planet is believed to have formed from material expelled by its dying star, offering new insights into planet formation.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asAlien 'phoenix planet' was born from the ashes of a dying star (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump has signed an executive order expanding access to tax-exempt red-dyed diesel for highway use. The move comes as diesel prices reached a record high and ahead of the November midterm elections.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asWill Trump's diesel order ease pain at the pump? Here's what farmers say (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Fox News Power Rankings suggest Democrats are positioned to take control of the U.S. House of Representatives in the upcoming midterms. Projections indicate a shift of at least 20 races towards Democrats, with one scenario showing them winning up to 237 seats.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asDemocrats add 6 House races to their 2026 'red to blue' target list (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
New York will participate in a federal scholarship tax credit program starting January 1. Taxpayers can receive federal credits for donations to nonprofit scholarship organizations, with individuals eligible for up to $1,700 and married couples up to $3,400. The program faces opposition from teachers unions.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asNew tax credit scholarships start in 2027. Could your child qualify? (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Thousands of Brazilian students marched in downtown Rio de Janeiro to protest against the possibility of Flávio Bolsonaro winning the presidency. He will face Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a runoff election on October 25.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asCurrency, stocks soar after Bolsonaro upset (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump stated that strategic bomber warplanes were withdrawn from RAF Fairford due to unspecified threats. The Pentagon confirmed the redeployment of all US bombers from the base to their home stations in the United States.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asUS moves bombers from UK air base (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is visiting Grand Island, Nebraska, for a campaign rally. The visit comes as Nebraska ranchers express anger over the administration's plan to increase foreign beef imports, a policy Senator Pete Ricketts has stated is not helping local ranchers.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asPresident Trump rallies Republicans in Grand Island (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Donald Trump has stated he regrets nominating Neil Gorsuch, Amy Coney Barrett, and Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court. He said the justices have voted against him in recent rulings and suggested he expected them to show more loyalty.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asTrump says he regrets nominating Gorsuch, Kavanaugh, Barrett to SCOTUS (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
Indian pilot Smit Machchhar has detailed a harrowing mid-flight assault by his co-pilot aboard a flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv. The co-pilot allegedly used an emergency axe and attempted to take control of the aircraft, which was diverted to Saudi Arabia.
Lincoln Journal Star reported it asHow a bleeding pilot, plumber and spare crew averted a plane crash (opens Lincoln Journal Star in a new tab)
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.
High factuality
Who owns it
- Lee EnterprisesMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Cherokee County, Georgia, United States
- Official site
- journalstar.com
- Seen publishing on
- journalstar.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 67
- Reports listed
- 67
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
67 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. Lincoln Journal Star is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 67 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Lincoln Journal Star’s on 2 of them. Overall it filed a median of 2 days after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 5 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 4 November 2026. Ratings pulled 6 October 2026.
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