Otago Daily Times media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Otago Daily Times in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Otago Daily Times biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Otago Daily Times in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Otago Daily Times left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Otago Daily Times in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Otago Daily Times reliable?
The factuality data this site ingests describes Otago Daily Times as very high factuality. It reaches us without a named assessor, so it is an unattributed rating rather than our verdict. It does not guarantee that every report is correct.
What Otago Daily Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Otago Daily Times’s own report linked underneath.
President Trump stated Iran is seeking a deal but is not yet prepared, ahead of a planned meeting with Gulf Cooperation Council leaders. He indicated the US would only accept a favourable agreement.
Otago Daily Times reported it asTrump hopes Iran war nearing end as Houthi-Saudi fighting escalates (opens Otago Daily Times in a new tab)
David Morens, 78, a senior adviser at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases from 2006 to 2022, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States. The case centres on efforts to hide federal records about COVID-19 origins and a terminated research grant linked to a Wuhan lab.
Otago Daily Times reported it asFormer Fauci adviser pleads guilty to conspiring to conceal Covid records (opens Otago Daily Times in a new tab)
A wildfire in Belgium’s High Fens nature reserve burned over 27 square kilometres on 15 August 2026, forcing 600 residents to evacuate. Over 250 emergency personnel, including firefighters from Belgium and Germany, were deployed, with EU assistance from Sweden, the Netherlands, and the Czech Republic.
Otago Daily Times reported it asVillages evacuated as Belgium fights record wildfire (opens Otago Daily Times in a new tab)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order on 10 August 2026 to separate the measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) vaccine into three individual shots and reduce the number of recommended childhood vaccines from 18 to 11. The order advises states with school vaccine mandates to consider updating their laws, though states retain authority over vaccination requirements.
Otago Daily Times reported it asTrump signs order to limit childhood vaccines and split MMR shots (opens Otago Daily Times in a new tab)
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.
- 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.
Very high factuality
The rating above reaches us without a named assessor, and is published as that rather than as anyone’s verdict.
Who owns it
- Allied PressMedia 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
- 4
- Reports listed
- 4
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 11 August 2026
4 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.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Otago Daily Times is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 4 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Otago Daily Times: its report arrived a median of 33 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 25 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 23 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
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