New York Magazine media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give New York Magazine one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. We have seen it on 54 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is New York Magazine biased?
The rating organisations do not give New York Magazine one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is New York Magazine left or right?
The rating organisations do not give New York Magazine one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Left; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is New York Magazine reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for New York Magazine are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What New York Magazine has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with New York Magazine’s own report linked underneath.
Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed will campaign with former primary rival Rep. Haley Stevens in Detroit. This marks their first joint public appearance in months, with Rep. Jim Clyburn also set to attend a get-out-the-vote event.
New York Magazine reported it asHaley Stevens’s Sabotage Mission (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
US news outlets will announce midterm election winners before all votes are tallied, using data from the Associated Press or Decision Desk HQ. These providers use vote counts, statistical analysis, and modeling to project outcomes, though past race calls have been retracted.
New York Magazine reported it asFinal Midterms Polls Show Democrats Poised to Flip Congress (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
President Donald Trump's efforts to gain control over election processes are leading to legal challenges. These cases could escalate to the U.S. Supreme Court, examining the boundaries of federal power in elections.
New York Magazine reported it asEvery Way Trump Might Mess With the Midterms (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Former President Barack Obama ridiculed President Donald Trump’s White House renovation as resembling a Saddam Hussein‑opened Cheesecake Factory during Ohio and Michigan campaign events nine days before the 2026 U.S. midterms. Digests reported two cost estimates, $900 million and over a billion dollars, and varied in what they highlighted.
New York Magazine reported it asThe Most Overheated Takes on Obama’s Cheesecake Factory Line (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent mocked former President Barack Obama after Obama compared White House renovations to a Cheesecake Factory. Bessent made his remarks while at a Cheesecake Factory, and Trump also responded to Obama's comments.
New York Magazine reported it asThe Most Overheated Takes on Obama’s Cheesecake Factory Line (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
US President Donald Trump has named Vice-President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio as potential Republican candidates for the 2028 presidential election. Trump stated it is too early to announce a definitive successor but suggested he has a strong field of potential candidates.
New York Magazine reported it asJ.D. Vance May Already Be on the Ballot (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's staff damaged a World War II-era globe associated with Dwight D. Eisenhower while moving it to his Pentagon office. The artifact suffered a gash and its spherical portion detached from its mounting.
New York Magazine reported it asMacho Man Hegseth Had His Staff Manhandle Ike’s Globe (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Kimberly Guilfoyle pleaded with influential figures, including Pete Hegseth and Rupert Murdoch, to help save her job as US ambassador to Greece. She was asked to resign on October 13 following reports about her conduct, which her representatives denied.
New York Magazine reported it asEverything Kimberly Guilfoyle Did to Try to Save Her Job (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
President Donald Trump is reportedly exploring options to replace White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles, inquiring with friends and allies about potential successors. Wiles's position has been called into question amid reports of her being left out of key decisions and criticism from rivals.
New York Magazine reported it asIs Susie Wiles the Next Trump Woman Out the Door? (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, President Trump's new press secretary, has stated she is a lawyer. An investigation found no record of her being licensed to practice law in any US state or Washington D.C. She told reporters she passed the bar exam when she moved to China.
New York Magazine reported it asKatie Zacharia Says She Passed the Bar Exam in … China? (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Former Fox News executive Ken LaCorte has accused the network of ignoring corruption allegations against Kimberly Guilfoyle, a former Fox News employee now serving as ambassador to Greece. LaCorte stated the lack of reporting was a conscious choice by middle management.
New York Magazine reported it asGuilfoyle’s Greek Tragedy: Too Corrupt Even for Trump (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Katie Zacharia, the new White House press secretary, held her first press conference, which was significantly shorter than her predecessor's. She made a verbal gaffe and faced criticism from an unnamed administration official.
New York Magazine reported it asTrump’s New Press Secretary Is Right Out of Central Casting (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
On 29 September 2026 New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani released a municipal strategy to combat antisemitism that allocates $26 million to the Office for Prevention of Hate Crimes. Over 25 Jewish organisations signed an open letter saying the plan omits anti‑Zionist harassment, prompting backlash across the media.
New York Magazine reported it asMamdani’s Real Test Is Curbing Antisemitism (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Vice President JD Vance stated that in the American context, socialism means replacing US workers with foreign labour and allowing boys to compete in girls' sports. His remarks, made during a press conference defending immigration policy, were met with widespread criticism.
New York Magazine reported it asJ.D. Vance Went to Yale and Can’t Define Socialism (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani marked the third anniversary of the October 7 attacks with a statement that acknowledged the Hamas massacre while also criticizing Israel's subsequent actions in Gaza. He stated that suffering continued through Israel's actions, which he described as genocide.
New York Magazine reported it asMamdani Couldn’t Resist Attacking Israel in Oct 7 Statement (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
New York Governor Kathy Hochul has appointed Attorney General Letitia James as special prosecutor in the Cornell University gang rape investigation. The governor removed the local district attorney from the case, citing a lack of trust. Allegations from 2024 have resurfaced, contributing to palpable tension on campus.
New York Magazine reported it asWhy Letitia James Is the Wrong Choice for Cornell Case (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Donald Trump posted Senator Tom Cotton's cellphone number on Truth Social, criticising the Republican for obstructing the Sunshine Protection Act. The bill, which would make daylight saving time permanent, passed the House but is stalled in the Senate.
New York Magazine reported it asWhy Trump Is So Ticked Off About Daylight Saving Time (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton privately told donors that the recent GOP convention in Dallas negatively impacted his polling numbers. His campaign adviser dismissed the leaked audio as 'manipulated nonsense'. Paxton is in a close race against state Rep. James Talarico.
New York Magazine reported it asTrump’s Midterms Convention Blew Up in Ken Paxton’s Face (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and other tech leaders privately questioned Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei about his public warnings on AI at a White House lunch. The exchange occurred after executives agreed to sign a statement of principles on AI safety, which Mark Zuckerberg drafted and Huang helped promote.
New York Magazine reported it asAnthropic Warns AI May Kill Us All in $2 Trillion IPO Pitch (opens New York Magazine in a new tab)
AI company Anthropic has filed for an initial public offering on Nasdaq, warning investors about potential catastrophic or existential risks to humanity from advanced AI systems. The company detailed these concerns in its IPO paperwork, dedicating a significant portion to risk factors.
New York Magazine reported it asAnthropic Warns AI May Kill Us All in $2 Trillion IPO Pitch (opens New York Magazine 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
Who owns it
- Vox MediaIndependentdirect owner
Where it publishes from
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
- 54
- Reports listed
- 54
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
54 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.
On 16 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and New York Magazine ran the story anyway.
Across the 54 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of New York Magazine: its report arrived a median of 30 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 3 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 3 November 2026. Ratings pulled 8 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as New York Magazine, 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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