Philly Voice media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Philly Voice one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Philly Voice biased?
The rating organisations do not give Philly Voice one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Philly Voice left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Philly Voice one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Philly Voice reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Philly Voice are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Philly Voice has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Philly Voice’s own report linked underneath.
Three supporting acts have withdrawn from Ed Sheeran's tour following the removal of rapper Macklemore. Macklemore was dropped by tour promoters for pro-Palestinian comments made during a performance. The departing acts cited solidarity with Macklemore and opposition to perceived silencing of voices speaking out against Israeli actions.
Philly Voice reported it asOpening acts drop out of Ed Sheeran's show in Philly in protest of Macklemore being booted from the tour (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
Pennsylvania officer charged with manslaughter after shooting college student at wrong house
Trust 42A Pennsylvania police officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter after fatally shooting a 22-year-old college student who knocked on the wrong door. Montgomery County District Attorney Kevin Steele announced the charge on 1 September 2026, stating the officer’s actions were not justified.
Philly Voice reported it asUpper Pottsgrove police officer charged with manslaughter for killing college student who knocked on wrong door (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has excluded two measles-associated deaths reported by Pennsylvania from its latest weekly update. The agency stated the decision was made pending further investigation into the cause of the deaths.
Philly Voice reported it asCDC leaves Pennsylvania deaths off national measles tally after vaccine spat between RFK Jr., Gov. Shapiro (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
Governor Mikie Sherrill has signed Senate Bill 4384 into law, permanently allowing New Jersey restaurants and bars to sell mixed cocktails for off-premises consumption. The law extends emergency COVID-19 measures and also expands sales options for craft distillers.
Philly Voice reported it asGov. Sherrill declares to-go cocktails are 'here to stay' in N.J. with new law (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved daraxonrasib, branded as Rasonque, for metastatic pancreatic cancer. In trials, patients taking the drug lived a median of 13.2 months, compared to 6.7 months on chemotherapy.
Philly Voice reported it asBreakthrough pancreatic cancer drug approved by the FDA (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro signed an executive order on 18 August 2026 imposing new restrictions on data center development, including local approval requirements and removal from fast-track permitting. The move reverses his earlier support for such projects and follows bipartisan opposition to their environmental and energy impacts.
Philly Voice reported it asGov. Shapiro imposes restrictions on 'speculative' data centers and requires community approval on projects (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
A University of Vienna study used brain scans of twelve dogs to show that happy human faces activate the temporal cortex and caudate nucleus, while anger, fear and sadness produce distinct neural patterns. The findings, published in iScience, suggest dogs can differentiate between specific emotions.
Philly Voice reported it asDogs can distinguish different types of human emotions, study shows (opens Philly Voice in a new tab)
Who says so
2 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.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- WWB Holdings, LLCBillionairedirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, United States
- Official site
- phillyvoice.com
- Seen publishing on
- phillyvoice.com
- Access
- Free to read
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
- 7
- Reports listed
- 7
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
7 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.
We have not seen Philly Voice cover a story that outlets rated left were largely absent from.
Across the 7 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Philly Voice: its report arrived a median of 11 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 20 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 17 September 2026. Ratings pulled 5 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Philly Voice, 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.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Philly Voice publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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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.