Morning Star media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Morning Star one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
The short answers
Is Morning Star biased?
The rating organisations do not give Morning Star one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Morning Star left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Morning Star one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Leans left; Ad Fontes Media: Far left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Morning Star reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Morning Star are Ad Fontes Media: Low factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Morning Star has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Morning Star’s own report linked underneath.
The World Wildlife Fund's Living Planet Report 2026 states that monitored wildlife populations have fallen by an average of 73% between 1970 and 2022. Habitat loss, climate change, pollution, and overexploitation are identified as primary threats, though some species show signs of recovery.
Morning Star reported it asNature is in ‘freefall’ yet hope remains for wildlife populations (opens Morning Star 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.
Mixed factuality
Who owns it
- People's Press Printing SocietyIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- morningstaronline.co.uk
- Seen publishing on
- morningstaronline.co.uk
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story Morning Star 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 8 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Morning Star, also publishing from United Kingdom, 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 Morning Star 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.