People's Daily media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places People's Daily in the centre. We have seen it on 4 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is People's Daily biased?
Ad Fontes Media places People's Daily in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is People's Daily left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places People's Daily in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is People's Daily reliable?
We do not hold a factual-reliability assessment for People's Daily. A political-leaning label would not answer that question on its own, so we do not infer reliability from left, centre or right.
What People's Daily has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with People's Daily’s own report linked underneath.
Eight South Koreans working on a hydropower plant project are missing and 10 others are stranded after a flash flood in Nepal. South Korea's Foreign Ministry has established a task force and plans to send a response team to the affected Rasuwa district.
People's Daily reported it asXi urges all-out rescue, relief efforts after mudslide hits border port in Xizang - People's Daily Online (opens People's Daily in a new tab)
A 24-year-old Nepali labourer survived a flash flood by clinging to a mango tree after being swept away by a torrent of mud and rock. The disaster has killed at least 150 people and left hundreds missing in Nepal.
People's Daily reported it asXi urges all-out rescue, relief efforts after mudslide hits border port in Xizang - People's Daily Online (opens People's Daily in a new tab)
Hamas issued a statement after talks in Cairo urging the US-led Board of Peace to compel Israel to accept a 15-point roadmap for the second phase of the Gaza ceasefire. Israel has rejected the plan, insisting it will not withdraw forces until Hamas is disarmed.
People's Daily reported it asHamas urges pressure on Israel to approve roadmap for 2nd phase of Gaza ceasefire agreement - People's Daily Online (opens People's Daily in a new tab)
Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu met in Jerusalem to establish working groups on Hamas disarmament and Gaza sanitation. Israel insists on verification by a US general; Hamas says it will disarm only after Israel withdraws.
People's Daily reported it asHamas urges pressure on Israel to approve roadmap for 2nd phase of Gaza ceasefire agreement - People's Daily Online (opens People's Daily 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.
We hold no factual-reliability rating for this outlet.
Who owns it
- Central Committee of the Chinese Communist PartyGovernmentdirect 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
- 2
- First seen
- 12 August 2026
2 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 2 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. People's Daily 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 People's Daily: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 26 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 1 September 2026. Ratings pulled 11 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as People's Daily, also publishing from China, 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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