Is NRC Handelsblad biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places NRC Handelsblad as leaning left. We have seen it on 1 published story of ours.
The short answers
Is NRC Handelsblad biased?
Media Bias/Fact Check places NRC Handelsblad as leaning left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is NRC Handelsblad left or right?
Media Bias/Fact Check places NRC Handelsblad as leaning left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is NRC Handelsblad reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for NRC Handelsblad are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
- Media Bias/Fact CheckleanLeftCheck 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
- MediahuisMedia Conglomeratedirect 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
- 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.
We have not seen NRC Handelsblad cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
On the one story of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of NRC Handelsblad: its report arrived a median of 2 days 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
- NRC HandelsbladLeans leftHigh factualityFIFA Leadership Continues to Stand Behind Infantino, Despite Increasing Criticism (opens NRC Handelsblad in a new tab)
Amsterdam, Government of Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands
Our report: Serbia withdraws support for Infantino as FIFA leadership crisis grows
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as NRC Handelsblad, also publishing from Netherlands, 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.