Is NewScientist biased?
Ad Fontes Media places NewScientist in the centre. We have not yet published a story this outlet appeared on.
Who says so
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- Ad Fontes MediacenterCheck it
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
- DMG MediaMedia Conglomeratedirect owner
- Daily Mail and General TrustMedia Conglomerateparent group
- Jonathan Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
- Vere Harmsworth, 3rd Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
- Esmond Harmsworth, 2nd Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
- Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermereunknownparent group
- Alfred Harmsworth (barrister)Independentparent group
- Geraldine Mary HarmsworthIndependentparent group
- Patricia Harmsworth, Viscountess RothermereBillionaireparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom
- Official site
- newscientist.com
- Seen publishing on
- newscientist.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- Wikipedia
- Entry
What we have seen ourselves
We have not published a story NewScientist 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 5 August 2026.
Stories we have seen it on
None yet. This fills in as NewScientist appears on stories we publish, and each entry links both to the outlet’s own report and to ours.
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.