Miami Herald media bias and reliability
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Miami Herald as leaning left. We have seen it on 5 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Miami Herald biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Miami Herald as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Miami Herald left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Miami Herald as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Miami Herald reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Miami Herald are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Miami Herald has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Miami Herald’s own report linked underneath.
Florida Republican gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds has removed prominent mentions of Donald Trump's endorsement and related campaign priorities from his website. The move comes as Trump's approval ratings have fallen.
Miami Herald reported it asByron Donalds strips Trump references from his campaign website (opens Miami Herald in a new tab)
Eighteen individuals accused in the 2021 assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have been extradited from Haiti to the United States. Federal prosecutor Jason Reding Quiñones confirmed the transfer, with suspects to face trial in Florida.
Miami Herald reported it as30 indicted in Moïse assassination. 18 transferred from Haiti to stand trial in U.S. (opens Miami Herald in a new tab)
A state grand jury found that $10 million in taxpayer money, meant for children's health insurance, was diverted to political action committees and the Republican Party of Florida. The funds were used to defeat a 2024 marijuana legalization initiative. No criminal charges were filed.
Miami Herald reported it asBreaking down the findings from the Hope Florida grand jury report (opens Miami Herald in a new tab)
A US Immigration and Customs Enforcement flight landed in Cap-Haïtien on 21 August 2026 with 161 passengers, the first deportation to Haiti since the Trump administration ended temporary protected status for more than 350,000 Haitians. All were released on arrival.
Miami Herald reported it asFirst ICE deportation flight to Haiti since the end of TPS lands in Cap-Haïtien (opens Miami Herald in a new tab)
Florida primary voters selected U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds as the Republican nominee for governor and former Rep. David Jolly as the Democratic nominee. Donalds, endorsed by Trump, defeated Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, while Jolly, a party-switcher, won the Democratic primary. They will compete in November to succeed Gov. Ron DeSantis.
Miami Herald reported it asDavid Jolly vs. Byron Donalds: Can Democrats break 27 years of Republican rule? (opens Miami Herald 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
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Chatham Asset ManagementPrivate Equitydirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Miami, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States
- Official site
- miamiherald.com
- Seen publishing on
- miamiherald.com
- Access
- Metered: some articles are readable, some are not
- 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
- 5
- Reports listed
- 5
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 10 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.
We have not seen Miami Herald cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 5 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Miami Herald’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 12 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 25 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 24 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Miami Herald, 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.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Miami Herald 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.