Mississippi Today media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Mississippi Today one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 8 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Mississippi Today biased?
The rating organisations do not give Mississippi Today one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Mississippi Today left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Mississippi Today one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Mississippi Today reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Mississippi Today are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Mississippi Today has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Mississippi Today’s own report linked underneath.
Leake County schools in Mississippi have been released from a federal desegregation order that had been in place for over 50 years. A judge approved the dissolution of the order on September 3, ending federal monitoring of the district.
Mississippi Today reported it asLeake County schools released from decades-long desegregation order (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
Twenty-five years after the September 11 attacks, a new poll shows they remain a significant historical event for many Americans. While about two-thirds believe 9/11 impacted the country, few plan to commemorate the upcoming anniversary.
Mississippi Today reported it as9/11 overshadows other major events of the past 25 years for many Americans, new poll finds (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
The U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals will hold a hearing on Wednesday in New Orleans on Louisiana’s lawsuit aiming to overturn the federal policy that allows abortion pills to be prescribed without an in‑person visit. Medication abortion now dominates abortions, and telehealth prescriptions keep rising.
Mississippi Today reported it asUS appeals court considers effort to restrict the most common abortion method (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
US childcare assistance waitlists leave hundreds of thousands of eligible children without support
Trust 78Hundreds of thousands of children eligible for government-funded childcare assistance were on waitlists across 23 states and D.C. in spring 2026, after $28bn in pandemic aid expired. Parents described forgoing necessities or relying on acquaintances to care for children while awaiting support.
Mississippi Today reported it asHundreds of thousands of eligible kids in the US are waiting for childcare assistance (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
Thousands of protesters are expected on the National Mall for the "Defend the Vote" March on Washington, organized by the Rev. Al Sharpton and Martin Luther King III. The event follows a Supreme Court decision that reinterpreted the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Mississippi Today reported it asCivil rights groups make urgent plea for voting rights in DC, ahead of midterm elections (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
Congressional Democrats launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s efforts to deport military service members and their families, citing an Associated Press report that found over 50 spouses and parents of active-duty troops have been detained by immigration authorities. The probe focuses on coordination between the Pentagon and DHS.
Mississippi Today reported it asCongressional Democrats launch probe of efforts to deport US military members and their families (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
A federal court monitor reported Mississippi’s Department of Child Protection Services met only 22 of 107 safety measures in 2025. Children in foster care experienced abuse or neglect at over twice the acceptable rate, and the state is seeking to dismiss the lawsuit.
Mississippi Today reported it asMississippi foster care system fails to meet dozens of safety requirements, new report says (opens Mississippi Today in a new tab)
Mississippi’s Joint Redistricting and Reapportionment Committee met on 3 August 2026 to start redrawing legislative, congressional and judicial districts following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Louisiana v. Callais ruling. Republican leaders declined to specify priorities, while activists called the process a sham.
Mississippi Today reported it asMississippi lawmakers launch redistricting process after Supreme Court ruling (opens Mississippi Today 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.
Very high factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Mississippi Today.
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- United States
- Official site
- mississippitoday.org
- Seen publishing on
- mississippitoday.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
- 8
- Reports listed
- 8
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
8 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. Mississippi Today is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Mississippi Today’s on 3 of them. Overall it filed a median of 29 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 22 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Mississippi Today, 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?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Mississippi Today 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.
Report something wrong on this page
Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.