Maine Public media bias and reliability
The bias data this site ingests places Maine Public as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Maine Public biased?
The bias data this site ingests places Maine Public as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Maine Public left or right?
The bias data this site ingests places Maine Public as leaning left. It does not name the organisation that made that assessment, so we publish it as an unattributed rating and nothing more. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Maine Public reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes Maine Public as high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What Maine Public has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Maine Public’s own report linked underneath.
A New York Times/Portland Press Herald/Siena poll shows Republican Susan Collins leading Democrat Troy Jackson by 3 percentage points in the Maine Senate race. The advantage falls within the poll's margin of error, indicating a close contest.
Maine Public reported it asPoll: Susan Collins holds slight edge over Troy Jackson in Maine's Senate race (opens Maine Public in a new tab)
The FBI sought to launch a pay-to-play investigation into interactions between Senator Susan Collins and a top donor, Martin Kao, but the probe reportedly ended after Donald Trump returned to office. Kao was indicted for illegal campaign contributions.
Maine Public reported it asThe FBI anti-corruption squad was circling Susan Collins — until Trump got in the way (opens Maine Public in a new tab)
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a father can decide whether his daughter attends an evangelical church. The decision upholds a lower court's order in a dispute over the child's religious upbringing, with the mother's lawyer planning an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Maine Public reported it asMaine Supreme Court upholds father's sole authority over religious and medical decisions for child (opens Maine Public in a new tab)
Flash floods and landslides swept away villages along the Nepal-Tibet border, killing at least 165 people. Experts suggest a glacial collapse, not an earthquake, was the cause, with climate change and the region's topography exacerbating the risks.
Maine Public reported it asA melting glacier contributed to the deadly Nepal floods. We can expect more like this (opens Maine Public in a new tab)
Maine's Republican nominee for governor, Bobby Charles, stated he would ask a federal official to send U.S. Marshals and ICE agents to polling places. Democrats called the plan illegal and an attempt to intimidate voters, while state officials noted legal prohibitions.
Maine Public reported it asBobby Charles says he'll ask Trump's border chief to send ICE agents to Maine polls (opens Maine Public in a new tab)
Who says so
The lean above is carried in the coverage data this site ingests, which names no rater for it. We publish it because it is what the rest of the site groups Maine Public on, and we will not present it as an assessment by anyone in particular until we hold one.
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
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Maine Public.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Lewiston, Androscoggin County, Maine, United States
- Seen publishing on
- mainepublic.org
- 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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 26 August 2026
5 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.
On 3 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Maine Public ran the story anyway.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Maine Public’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 7 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 11 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 29 September 2026. Ratings pulled 26 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Maine Public, 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?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Maine Public 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.
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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.