Is Montana Standard biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Montana Standard in the centre. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is Montana Standard biased?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Montana Standard in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Montana Standard left or right?
AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place Montana Standard in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Montana Standard reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Montana Standard are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
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
Who owns it
- Lee EnterprisesMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- mtstandard.com
- Seen publishing on
- mtstandard.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
- 1
- Reports listed
- 1
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
1 of those reports was 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. Montana Standard is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 2 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Montana Standard: its report arrived a median of 32 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 6 August 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 6 August 2026. Ratings pulled 6 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
- Montana StandardCentreVery high factualityKey FIFA figures break ranks with Gianni Infantino (opens Montana Standard in a new tab)
Our report: Serbia withdraws support for Infantino as FIFA leadership crisis grows
- Montana StandardCentreVery high factualityBlanche rescinds 'weaponization' fund (opens Montana Standard in a new tab)
Our report: Senate panel to advance Todd Blanche nomination after Republican deal
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Montana Standard, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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.