Is Metro News biased?

AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Metro News as leaning left. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.

Leans leftMixed factuality

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.

AllSidesleanLeftCheck it
Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
Media Bias/Fact CheckleanLeftCheck it

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.

Mixed factuality

Media Bias/Fact CheckmixedCheck it

Who owns it

DMG MediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Daily Mail and General TrustMedia Conglomerateparent group
Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
Alfred Harmsworth (barrister)Independentparent group
Geraldine Mary HarmsworthIndependentparent group
Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess RothermereBillionaireparent group

Where it publishes from

Publishes from: London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
Official site: metro.co.uk
Seen publishing on: metro.co.uk
Access: Free to read
Wikipedia: Entry

What we have seen ourselves

We have not published a story Metro News 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 4 August 2026.

Stories we have seen it on

None yet. This fills in as Metro News appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.

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.