Portland Press Herald media bias and reliability
The rating organisations do not give Portland Press Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. We have seen it on 15 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Portland Press Herald biased?
The rating organisations do not give Portland Press Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; 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 Portland Press Herald left or right?
The rating organisations do not give Portland Press Herald one shared verdict in the records we hold. Their published ratings are AllSides: Centre; Ad Fontes Media: Centre; Media Bias/Fact Check: Leans left. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Portland Press Herald reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Portland Press Herald are Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Portland Press Herald has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Portland Press Herald’s own report linked underneath.
The Supreme Court will decide this month whether to hear a case brought by a Maine lobsterman challenging a federal rule requiring GPS trackers on fishing boats. The ruling could impact the broader commercial fishing industry.
Portland Press Herald reported it asSupreme Court to decide whether to hear Maine lobsterman’s challenge to GPS boat tracker requirement (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has ruled that a father can decide whether his daughter attends an evangelical church. The decision upholds a lower court's order in a dispute over the child's religious upbringing, with the mother's lawyer planning an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Portland Press Herald reported it asMaine’s high court says mother can’t take daughter to Calvary Chapel without father’s permission (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
A Maine teenager has been sentenced to prison for child sexual exploitation and alleged ties to the violent 764 network. The case marks the first time a juvenile has been federally charged in connection with the group.
Portland Press Herald reported it asMaine teen is first juvenile charged in federal extremist group case, FBI says (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot conducted a spacewalk on September 1, 2026, lasting 6 hours and 49 minutes. They installed a new retroflector for spacecraft navigation and replaced a camera, while Adenot faced temporary mobility problems with her left arm.
Portland Press Herald reported it asMaine astronaut Jessica Meir to embark on 7th spacewalk (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
Canada is adjusting its list of counter-tariffs in response to feedback from Canadian industries. The planned reprisal includes raising tariffs on American steel and aluminum products and imposing duties on hundreds of other U.S. exports.
Portland Press Herald reported it asDoes Trump have an ulterior motive in trade war with Canada? (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
New documents obtained by the Associated Press and The Guardian appear to contradict statements made by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. regarding his 2019 visit to Samoa. Kennedy had told lawmakers the trip was unrelated to vaccines, but a letter he sent mentions vaccines eight times.
Portland Press Herald reported it asRFK Jr. said a Samoa trip had nothing to do with vaccines. New documents refute that (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
Maine's Republican nominee for governor, Bobby Charles, stated he would ask a federal official to send U.S. Marshals and ICE agents to polling places. Democrats called the plan illegal and an attempt to intimidate voters, while state officials noted legal prohibitions.
Portland Press Herald reported it asBobby Charles says he will ask Trump border czar to send ICE to Maine polls (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
A federal judge has lifted a nationwide injunction blocking President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting. The Supreme Court ruled a previous challenge was premature, but states have filed a new lawsuit arguing the USPS rule interferes with election administration.
Portland Press Herald reported it asMaine sues Trump postal service over new mail voting rule (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
President Donald Trump signed an executive order reducing the U.S. childhood vaccination schedule, driven by frustration over perceived links to autism. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is prioritizing studies on potential vaccine-autism connections, despite scientific consensus to the contrary.
Portland Press Herald reported it asNew vaccine order puts young people at risk (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
A 1988 police report alleging Troy Jackson assaulted a man and pushed his partner has resurfaced in Maine’s Senate race. Republican Sen. Susan Collins said Jackson must respond, while no left-rated outlet covered the story. Right-rated outlets led on Collins’ remarks; the centre-rated report carried the police details.
Portland Press Herald reported it asDemocrats need focused messaging in Maine Senate race (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
Congressional Democrats launched an investigation into the Trump administration’s efforts to deport military service members and their families, citing an Associated Press report that found over 50 spouses and parents of active-duty troops have been detained by immigration authorities. The probe focuses on coordination between the Pentagon and DHS.
Portland Press Herald reported it asPingree and top Homeland Security Democrat to hold ‘shadow hearing’ about ICE in Biddeford (opens Portland Press Herald 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.
Portland Press Herald reported it asTrump signs executive order calling for spacing out childhood shots (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement announced it will equip every field officer with body cameras by 31 August 2026, following scrutiny over fatal shootings. The agency will control public access to footage, citing privacy and investigative concerns, a policy critics say lacks transparency.
Portland Press Herald reported it asICE says it expects to equip every field officer with body cameras by the end of August (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
The Senate Homeland Security Committee voted to hold Dr. Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress after he invoked his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination 111 times during a hearing on COVID-19 origins. The resolution, opposed by all Democrats, was sent to the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia for potential prosecution.
Portland Press Herald reported it asSusan Collins has no comment on Republicans holding Fauci in contempt; Angus King criticizes move (opens Portland Press Herald in a new tab)
MaineHealth’s trustees voted to close the labour and delivery unit at Lincoln Hospital in Damariscotta, leaving three counties without obstetric services. The decision, opposed by state officials and community groups, follows 11 other maternity unit closures in Maine since 2015 and will move services to Brunswick.
Portland Press Herald reported it asMaineHealth board votes to close birthing center at Lincoln Hospital in Damariscotta (opens Portland Press Herald 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.
High factuality
- Media Bias/Fact CheckhighCheck it
Who owns it
- Maine Trust for Local NewsOtherdirect owner
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- South Portland, Cumberland County, Maine, United States
- Official site
- pressherald.com
- Seen publishing on
- pressherald.com
- Access
- Paywalled
- 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
- 15
- Reports listed
- 15
- We could read
- 0
- First seen
- 7 August 2026
15 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. Portland Press Herald is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 15 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, we logged no report earlier than Portland Press Herald’s on 1 of them. Overall it filed a median of 29 hours after the earliest report we logged.
Measured 22 September 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 20 September 2026. Ratings pulled 10 September 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Portland Press Herald, 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 Portland Press Herald 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.