Phoenix New Times media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Phoenix New Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 7 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Phoenix New Times biased?
The rating organisations do not give Phoenix New Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Phoenix New Times left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Phoenix New Times one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Leans left; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Left.
Is Phoenix New Times reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Phoenix New Times 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 Phoenix New Times has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Phoenix New Times’s own report linked underneath.
Democrats have secured a trifecta in Arizona, winning control of the governorship and both legislative chambers for the first time in six decades. This marks a significant shift in the state's political landscape, with Republicans having held the House for 60 years and the Senate since the early 1990s.
Phoenix New Times reported it asDems are in control of the Arizona Capitol; here’s what we know about their agenda (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
Democrat Katie Hobbs has won re-election as Arizona governor, defeating Republican Andy Biggs. Early returns showed Hobbs with a commanding lead, securing her second term in office.
Phoenix New Times reported it asBiggsy Wiggsy waves goodbye (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
More than 34 million Americans have cast early ballots in the current midterm elections. This figure is on pace to surpass the early voting turnout of the 2022 midterms, according to data tracked by the UF Election Lab.
Phoenix New Times reported it asOfficials reassure voters they’ll be able to vote without intimidation on Election Day (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
On Tuesday, Americans vote in the 2026 midterms that will decide whether Republicans keep their narrow House majority and Senate seats. Trump faces low approval ratings, a war with Iran and a costly cost‑of‑living squeeze, while polls show 54% of his base would back him even if he loses.
Phoenix New Times reported it asOfficials reassure voters they’ll be able to vote without intimidation on Election Day (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
Federal authorities are investigating a series of suspicious letters containing an unidentified white powder sent to election and government officials across the United States. The U.S. Postal Inspection Service is leading the inquiry into the connected incidents.
Phoenix New Times reported it asTerror at the capital: Secretary of State defiant after discovery of mysterious powder (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
U.S. District Judge Murray Snow rejected Maricopa County's request to end federal supervision of the sheriff's office. The judge cited a plaintiffs' expert who found a 4.7-minute longer average stop for Hispanic drivers compared to white drivers.
Phoenix New Times reported it asJudge rejects Maricopa County's bid to end racial profiling reforms (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes confronted federal officials during a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency call, accusing the Trump administration of abandoning election security duties. Democratic states have sued over threatened FEMA funding cuts, while the Justice Department prepares 1,000 election monitors.
Phoenix New Times reported it asFontes tells Trump's election security agency: 'I don't trust you' (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
Democratic Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs chose John Giles, a former Republican mayor of Mesa, as her running mate on 11 August 2026. Giles, who switched to independent in May, aims to attract conservative voters in a tight race against Republican Rep. Andy Biggs. Arizona will elect a lieutenant governor for the first time in January 2027.
Phoenix New Times reported it asWho is John Giles? Meet Hobbs' ex-Republican pick for Lt. Governor (opens Phoenix New Times in a new tab)
Who says so
3 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
- Voice Media Groupunknowndirect owner
- Village Voice MediaMedia Conglomerateparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Phoenix, Maricopa County, Arizona, United States
- Official site
- phoenixnewtimes.com
- Seen publishing on
- phoenixnewtimes.com
- Access
- Free to read
- Wikipedia
- Entry
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
- 1
- First seen
- 14 August 2026
6 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
On 1 of those stories, outlets rated left were largely absent from the coverage and Phoenix New Times ran the story anyway.
Across the 8 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Phoenix New Times: its report arrived a median of 4 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 12 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 12 November 2026. Ratings pulled 13 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Phoenix New Times, 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?
The leanings above are published by AllSides, Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check, and we republish them rather than make them. If you think one is misapplied, the strongest place to say so is with the organisation that made it, and every verdict here links to their page.
What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Phoenix New Times 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.