Pine Journal media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Pine Journal in the centre. We have seen it on 11 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Pine Journal biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Pine Journal in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Pine Journal left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Pine Journal in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Pine Journal reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Pine Journal are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Pine Journal has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Pine Journal’s own report linked underneath.
The unsolved death of Joli Truelson in 1972 is being re-examined. An exhumation may provide new answers, with the case recently featured on The Vault podcast.
Pine Journal reported it asExhumation could bring answers in 1972 unsolved death of Joli Truelson (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
ICE officer Christian Castro has been federally charged with making false statements about the January shooting of Julio Cesar Sosa-Celis in Minneapolis. Federal authorities had initially accused Sosa-Celis of assaulting an officer, but dropped charges after video evidence emerged.
Pine Journal reported it asReports: Federal prosecutors charge ICE agent with false statements in Minnesota shooting (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
A coneflower exhibiting a two-headed mutation is a result of environmental triggers, according to reports. This phenomenon was covered across multiple outlets, with reader questions about gardening also noted.
Pine Journal reported it asTwo-headed coneflower is a mutation triggered by environment (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
An Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer charged in a Minneapolis shooting has been released from a Texas jail. A judge refused to order his extradition to Minnesota, citing jurisdictional issues, while Texas Governor Greg Abbott awaits an internal state investigation.
Pine Journal reported it asICE agent facing charges in Minnesota released from Texas jail after judge denies Minnesota request (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
A series of reports and the first episode of a podcast about Harvey Carignan, a serial killer born in North Dakota, have been released. The content is available in e-editions and online.
Pine Journal reported it asA closer look at Harvey Carignan (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced a new nationwide initiative to improve search-and-rescue responses for missing people with autism. The program seeks to establish an autism-specific alert system to quickly disseminate critical information.
Pine Journal reported it asIn Rochester, HHS Secretary Kennedy announces national safety initiative for autistic kids, adults (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
The US Agriculture Department plans to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, removing logging restrictions on over 40 million acres of national forest. The move, announced by Secretary Brooke Rollins, aims to reduce wildfire risks but is opposed by environmental groups who say it will increase them.
Pine Journal reported it asTrump administration moves to allow logging in 62,000 acres of Superior National Forest (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
A federal judge dismissed the Department of Justice’s 2025 lawsuit against Minnesota Secretary of State Steve Simon, ruling the demand for the state’s voter rolls amounted to a 'fishing expedition'. The case was one of 23 similar lawsuits filed by the DOJ.
Pine Journal reported it asFederal judge dismisses DOJ lawsuit seeking Minnesota’s voter rolls (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
Several US counties are reviewing contracts with Flock Safety after privacy breaches, including misidentified plates and unauthorised tracking. The company is tightening rules for law enforcement use, while cameras have been vandalised in Colorado. Opposition includes abortion activists, though no left-rated outlet covered the story.
Pine Journal reported it asFlock camera protest in Fargo ends abruptly after fights break out (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
Naz Reid, traded from the Minnesota Timberwolves to the Charlotte Hornets, said he was informed of the possibility 48 hours before the trade was reported. He was en route to the Bahamas when the deal was confirmed. Outlets diverged on whether to lead with the timing or the location of his revelation.
Pine Journal reported it asNaz Reid opens up on trade to Hornets, next chapter after Minnesota (opens Pine Journal in a new tab)
The US Senate passed a bill on 3 August 2026 that includes a one-month delay on federal regulation of intoxicating hemp-derived THC products in Minnesota. The reprieve, part of a short-term funding measure, could be extended beyond December and prevents an immediate ban on the state's hemp-based edibles and drinks industry.
Pine Journal reported it asUS Senate throws Minnesota’s hemp-based THC industry a lifeline (opens Pine Journal 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
- Ad Fontes MediaveryHighCheck it
Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Pine Journal.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- pinejournal.com
- Seen publishing on
- pinejournal.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
- 11
- Reports listed
- 11
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 5 August 2026
11 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. Pine Journal is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 11 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Pine Journal’s on 3 of them. Overall it filed a median of 8 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 23 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 22 September 2026. Ratings pulled 8 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Pine Journal, 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 Pine Journal 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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Anything we correct is written up in the public corrections log. We do not publish reader votes as a rating, because an unattributed rating is the thing this site exists to argue against.
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.